Originally Posted by rainheart

Good luck. Good. Luck.

This is a battle fought on all fronts.

Parents are so severely handicapped that they have no choice but to secede all parenting rights to various third parties. If you had a kid, how much time would you have to be there during the days when he or she needs your attention? Not much, I'd bet- especially if you wanted your kid to get all those expensive advantages in life. What's all that stuff being advertised on TV that your kids need or will beg for? Diapers. Hot-wheels cars. Barbie dolls. Clothes. Cell-phones. Computers. PS3's. The videogames that go along with them. Bread & butter. Sunny-D. Braces. Proactiv. Soft-contact lenses. Post-secondary tuition fees. Cars.

All those things cost money.

That means you have to work. A lot. To the point where you can't be there to provide the psychological support for your kids. But then even that becomes some sort of service provided by another business. Daycare. Nannies. Private Schools. Public Schools. Extra-curricular activities. Day-time cartoons. Night-time cartoons. It grows on itself so much that even the advertisements for all those toys begin to tell your kids how to behave.

This is what your kids are raised on.

You want to talk about conservative? I'm a frickin' conservative. I don't think people should have that much control over how your kids are raised. So when someone calls themself a conservative and supports promoting abstinence and only abstinence, one of the grounds of that being that the parents just aren't competent to raise their kids, I get infuriated. Call yourself a conservative if you like. I don't want to offend you but rather shock you into thinking about the bigger picture for a bit- so don't take it personally when I say that I think what you say is ignorant.

Now, why would you not be up in arms about this? It's easy to ignore it, sure. It's like holding someones head down in the water while they drown and saying it's their own fault they can't swim. It doesn't matter, because they are being forced into drowning. This is not about empowering the parents at all.

So is the government-industrial complex going to teach your kids how to act or are you? Is it even a choice at this point?