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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (72665)	8/20/2003 5:26:51 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Mine didn't. No, mine didn't either. I was a pretty well-behaved kid. I'm sure it's quite possible even nowadays to raise well-behaved kids. And I think that parents have a duty to do so. My approach to that problem, which I've posted about often, is that people who can't or won't do that shouldn't have kids. Other people, who shall remain nameless, have different ideas about that, the need to populate the earth and all that. But we have what we have. We have parents who don't or can't. And their kids as a whole become the equivalent of a public health problem. What are we going to do about them. We can hardly bring out the pesticides and get rid of them. We can't make people get licenses to give birth or force abortions on unpromising parents. We can't block all the stimuli that contribute to problem parents and problem kids. We can't take the kids away from their parents and put them in the system. Probably a quarter of the kids in the country would be in the system, for heaven's sake. How can we make parents parent? You have told us. All you've done is pick at an approach to giving parents who are inclined to try a tool for their toolkit. In a perfect world, they wouldn't need the tool. They would be responsible and effective. But it ain't a perfect world.