Posted by
KsReaganite on Friday, August 18, 2006 2:02:53 AM
The networks had a big story this week about how clueless most parents were about the ready availability of drugs at parties their children frequent. As usual, the media got it wrong. Parents are not unaware of that phenomena.....procreators are. Real parents who are involved in the lives of their children love their offsrpring enough to set good examples, make sacrifices, and establish readily enforced boundaries of conduct. It is the sperm and egg donors whose highest values are hedonism and keeping up with Joneses that have kids who end up doing horrible things to themselves and the rest of society.
I have known kids and families of all kinds. Yet, I rarely find a kid who comes from a two-parent family where a parent stays at home to raise the children, to have indulged in illicit drugs. Illicit drugs, sexual promiscuity, and failing academics go hand in hand.....no matter how loud the do-anything-you-please chorus sings otherwise. Send the signal that a parent is permissive on one of those three things, and see how the other two follow in quick succession. Real parents don't send those kind of idiotic signals implicitly or explicitly.
Procreators do.
Let us be real. Teens are impressionable. You preach 'tolerance' for deviant behavior, cheat on your spouse, and expect your kids to believe in absolutes of 'right' and 'wrong'? Pleaaaseee!
Teenagers are not my favorite kinda people. Most are boisterous, often disrespectful, and largely clueless about the realities of the world. But most of the blame for this sorry state of affairs falls on men and women who brought them to the world and left them to fend for themselves without an ethical compass. Talk about child endangerment.