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Originally Posted by photon
Good question, how many kids do you have Flames in 07?
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Zero. Prefer my career and think if I raise a kid it should be the most important thing in my life. I have coached hundreds ... well maybe about a thousand now, of kids in community sports over 14 years and have seen a noticeable difference in that time.
We can have 50 kids at a tryout and within the first ew hours of being around them you can see alot. You can pick out with a high degree of certainty which kids do not have male role models in their life (that's the easiest thing to see off the bat) you can tell which kids play hockey (don't ask why they are different ... its not important to the point) and out of each group you can tell a handful of kids are being raise full time by a parent. They just interact with adults different ... and better, the best way to describe them are that they seem to be further along in development and maturity.
I see by this thread that society is finding it more and more acceptable to be more selfish and sluff off their roles as a parent on institutions and tax payers so they can entertain themselves at work because parenting is either below them, or boring or for whatever reason not worth their time ... on a full time basis anyway. Quite sad actually.