On Sunday, August 14, 2016 at 1:31:39 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2016-08-14 12:14 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> > Cheri wrote:
> > Dumping a kid at a day care center (kennel) is zero parenting. I know
> > people who dump their pets off to be boarded at a kennel several times
> > a year for weeks at a time, they shouldn't have pets, often their pets
> > are cared for better at kennels. My cats have never been boarded, not
> > even once... they get nervous when they see me put my shoes on, and
> > I've only gone shopping for an hour or less. When I'm mowing they go
> > from window to window making sure I'm not leaving... I come in about
> > once an hour to make sure they're okay. These days an awful lot of
> > people should never have children, and the most inept parents seem to
> > have the most children/the most feral children.
>
> Thanks to modern moral standards and a generous welfare system, the
> people around here who seem to be having the most kids are the young,
> unmarried welfare mothers. In the past, girls who accidentally got
> pregnant were sent off to live with an aunt. Parents were embarrassed by
> the shame of their daughter's immoral and irresponsible behaviour and
> tried to hide the indiscretion. These days people have no problem
> bragging about their unmarried daughters having a number of children by
> different fathers. The fathers are generally not in the picture and the
> mothers get to stay home and live on welfare. Great role models for
> children.

On the other hand, I've seen horrendous parenting from middle-class and
upper-middle-class parents. They give their kids everything except
discipline, and the result is arrogant entitlement.

Cindy Hamilton