Originally Posted by
Scav
The economy is 24 hours round, and with human nature allways wanting to improve ones own standards more and more couples are both working instead of just one, to make end's meet or have more spending cash. Children see less and less of their parents with every generation and the task of raising them is pushed more and more in to the hands of the schools. kids are becomming more individualistic and egocentered in the process. underpayed, overworked teachers see their tasks expanded without proper resources and time to manage it. Schools these days have to do so much parenting to bring them up to the level that kids had before when they came to school that they hardly get to the things they were setup in the first place.... teach. this might work out decently enough for large parts of the children population, but a lot of kids are lost along the way. There is a reason so many kids are diagnosed with socialemotional / psychilogical disorders like ADHD, PDD-Nos and god knows what else. does this mean that they all end up like spree shooters? no of course not, but i think it would be in everybody's best interest if folks starting shifting their focus away from their work / carreer a bit and did some more parenting of their own, with decent youthcare and mental healthcare to help both the kids and most importantly the parents cope.