J_B wrote:I liked that one too, DTOM.
PS's claim that the fact that women are in the workforce and not staying home to raise their babies is leading to the moral decline of America is ludicrous.
Quote:Good breeding is fast becoming a thing of the past, replaced by rough, uncouth, low-class trashy behavior. Manners are not taught to children, because the parents are too busy working so that they can have those extra cell phones and designer clothes for the kids.
First, I don't buy the cry of moral decay and even if it were a fact I disagree with the premise that the typical American woman is leaving her baby with a sitter so that she can have an extra cell for or designer clothes for the kids.
i don't either, j.b. moral decay is a perception seen through glasses of an ever changing world.
that's okay. i can understand it. i'm not 20 anymore either.
being a latchkey kid myself from the age of 9, i can guarantee that my mother returned tot eh work force not for cell phones (they didn't exist till several decades later), but to help my father pay for luxuries like housing, food, non-trendy clothing (neither one approved of trendy anything), medical and school expenses.
and strangely enough, rather than return to her previous profession, in which she would have made the big bucks, she chose to instead become a teacher and then a professor.
frankly, it's personally insulting to me when people start carping about the bad kids being a result of radical lefty teachers and profs.
bad kids are the direct result of bad parenting. and having grown up in a time and area that was a model of the stay at home mom, conservative values rhetoric, i can assure you that there were still bad kids.
mush to my chagrin, i wasn't one of them.
