Nearly everyone has an opinion about the raising of children, who should have children, who shouldn't have children, how old one should be to bring up children, how many children a couple should have, whether same sex couples can successfully raise children, whether or not population growth can or should be regulated, and most vociferously of all whether it is okay to kill children in utero.
Does all that opinionating taken in a lump seem just a tad idle considering that in Africa presently there are millions of children not cared for because their parents died of a sexually tranmitted virus? I feel for Madonna suffering criticism for daring to adopt an African child without first gaining universal approval for doing so.
In short, I smell - our nation reeks of it in fact - self-righteous pontificating on a grand scale. Has partial birth abortion really truly taken place in America on a large scale? Please tell me it isn't so. It is so isn't it? Americans, the selfish barbarians, always seeing to their comfort while madly opinionating about what the rest of the world is up to. A sign of America's decaying society is the almost total absence of foreign art - novels, movies, painting, music and dance, to cite just a few, circulating in our culture. How long is it since you last saw a foreign movie?! Hmmmm? Yet, we are so greedy to look good in the arts we stole art treasures from Italy, and only recently gave them back. We suck. ELIZABETH the two part history drama from England played repeatedly here on television and that was nice; I'm consoled knowing that it will be shown on college campuses here as part of History lecture classes.
Children are probably taken better care of in Japan than they are in America. They are certainly disciplined to greater effect than children are disciplined here in America. Japanese children are taught math earlier and longer and more rigorously than they are in America. As a result, Japanese autos shine magnificently on our flooded- with-foreign-vehicle freeways and highways and city streets. Ford, wanting some of the action, became principal investor in the Japanese auto company, Mazda!
We oughtta start over. We could begin by redesigning our school systems.
Barry
2 comments:
Where do we start first? We simply have to go back to better parenting at home. Discipline is key, in my opinion. Then privatize all schools. Government is too big to be managing the education of our children.
the schools do have problems. but if you want your kids to grow up "smart" parents should take a more active roll in their kids lives. too many parents let the school systems raise their children. that is the real shame.
Kathy
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