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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Ding ding ding ding. Every major societal problem ultimately comes back to the parents. This is what government should be doing; trying to place more responsibility on the parents to uphold their end of the bargain. Do homework with their kids. Make sure they're not hanging around with bad influences. Emphasize responsibility and education.
Kids are like dogs; if you socialize them properly and train them, they're mans best friend. If you don't, you have a psychotic monster that doesn't listen and bites people.
And if people can't handle the responsibility of raising a child, they shouldn't have one.
This is what I wish the government would focus on instead of a 32 hour work week and curbing cigarette use.
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You're not wrong, but it's hardly wisdom. The world is the way the world is though. There will always be bad parents, parents who don't give a crap, parents who didn't mean to have kids but ended up with them, and so on.
I'm not sure much a government can 'force' responsibility. You can put out a certain level of education and support groups, but that's about it. Stricter punishments are going to do absolutely zero, you can't force someone to be responsible, and in fact, it's probably only going to hurt the children more. The world is how it is. Government can't do much about that. I mean, why not focus on candy houses and a unicorn in every home?