Isn't that for sure. How many eagle scouts are doing drive by shootings and robbing people at gun point?
Yeah there is a culture problem I think. I'm in between the x and millennials, and I think thebyounger ones aren't being taught any practical principals. They're growing up online raised by salesmen for entertainment products. Bill Mayur has a clip on YouTube about how Hollywood denounces guns, yet every movie is about striking back at their transgressors in a vengeance story, usually using guns, and how glorious and rightous it is. We're in some kind of lash-out period in history.
I few it as a issue of morals and fatherlessness. A moral people don't need laws, and the fatherless rate in America is appalling, especially for certain groups.
I think this has a lot to do with it. I would throw out there too, that you don't need a mother and father. Two mothers/fathers would go a long way. People with no moral compass, or ignoring basic right and wrong, I would think, are more likely to not have partners. No one want's to partner up with those kind They end up raising children on their own. And the Gov PAYS them to do it!
While ANY positively involved parent is better than none, it is incorrect to assume that two females or two males can provide the same benefit of the well rounded bond/upbringing that man and a woman (mother and father) provide.
We'll have to agree to disagree then. Right is right and wrong is wrong. Two parents that are good decent and well rounded can convey to the little ones everything they need to grow up happy healthy and good people.
Plenty of children who have actually grown up without fathers, or mothers, would disagree with you.
I'm talking about a two parent household being the key.
Two parent households, just by the nature of having 100% more "parent" than single parent households, can be an obvious benefit. That is also largely dependent on the quality of the parents. Two crappy parents are likely not equal to one great parent.
No offense here, but this is untrue! My first wife lost both her parents to a drunken driving accident both were dead beats and both were flaming drunk when they crashed and burned, leaving my wife to be raised by her single Grandmother. She had as much a chance to fail as any, but she didn't, she got strait A's in school, wore second hand clothes, went to the prom in a dress her grand mother made by hand with recycled old clothes!
Not to get two far afield, but those are both kind of extreme circumstances.
Wifes family is from Butte Falls, looking at the cemetery theres a 40% chance were related
Yep, an anecdotal experience makes it untrue for hundreds of thousands of children… sure.
I think he was saying that, statistically, in general, all else being equal, it's best for children to have both a mother and a father in the home. I believe that this has been statistically proven time and again, thought it was common knowledge. Studies have been done, though I'm not going to take the time to try to find them.
