Posts Tagged ‘Government Intervention’

How can we go about establishing minimum standards for parenting?

Friday, October 24th, 2008
parenting
p_wabbit asked:


I’ve noticed such an overall decline in parenting standards in the last 10 to 15 years (as evidenced by what I’ve noticed to be a real growth in poorly behaved children and blasé parental response and proactiveness).

I’ve read that this might in part be due to everythign from a post 9-11 ‘baby spike’ to the decline of the nuclear family.

But as I look around at these poorly behaved children, and declining moral values amongst tween and teens .. if in fact children are our future - what can we do to ensure better quality leaders of tomorrow..?

If the fault lies in poor parenting - what can we do to fix this problem?

more government intervention? cash incentives? parent licensing? mandetory parent re-education? free public early childhood education (preschool)?

?

Lloyd