The more people should expect to dislike the results. Totally the parents’ faults on both fronts. Turning over their kids to state-run institutions, and not parenting them in the time they do have them. We should be well on our way with universal pre-care to university.

I personally further think it’s a waste of everyone’s time and money even policing this kind of garbage. I simply don’t care to send bad-parenting reminders via police after the damage is looong since done. There will always be prostitutes, and there will always be recreational drugs. I’ll keep my money, since we’ve proved beyond a shadow of a doubt to have any affect on them other than creating immense police organizations and huge prison populations. And not a single person I’ve ever met would have any difficulty locating ANY drug without fear. Great value for dollar.

The only solution is deep, deep rollbacks in the size and reach of state and police so that people start working towards some semblance of self-reliance and responsibility again. Behavior, consequences, real life– but fat chance of that. Liberals love the state and we love to believe that more laws = moral society.

It’s happening here too, slowly but surely. It’s terrifying that they don’t see anything wrong with it and that culture is slowly gravitating toward that behavior, not away from it.
It makes me want to lock my kids in a closet until they turn 25.

It means saying “no” occassionally. It means not being your child’s friend. If you need to be your child’s friend, you need to look at your own life. Seriously. Someone over the age of 20 should not be so desperate for friends that a teenager seems a good idea.

Here is the funny thing. In Maryland ( a very blue state), they asked the teenagers what they wanted. They wanted parents, not friends. They wanted rules and boundaries. Sure, they would have tested them. That is a teenagers’ job. But, they appreciate the safety net of the rules.

to a good whoopen? Seriously, children have been bent over knees for the past 10,000 years and civilization has done pretty good by it. I really do not understand all this garbage about being your kid’s friend. I’m not a parent so I honestly can’t say much beyond how I was raised and when I see kids act out these days I can’t imagine what my parents would have done to me if I tried to pull some of that crap.

And no, I’m not being sarcastic or trolling. I’m dead serious.

Some of the phrases that come to mind:
1-abdication of parental responsibility
2-child neglect

Every election cycle, some buch of dunderheads in print or electronic punditry want to argue about cutting loose social conservatives so we can win elections.

After reading these stories, what good will it be to own the White House, Congress, etc., if our children are diesase-ridden prostitutes? The same goes for almost any other aspect of politics. Why value anything but money, unless one has a religious or spiritual awareness. Why not let junior do what he likes, except for the monster he grows up to be? Why instill any morality in anyone? Or expect it?

One huge reason is that without religion, gubmint becomes the arbiter of values. there really is no such thing as “value free education.” Someone’s values will be imparted. Should it be those of a benevolent and omniscient Creator? Or should it be the God devised by Queen Nancy and Prince Harry?

BTW. One doesn’t have to look as far as Canada for examples of the logical outcomes of such thinking. Just take a peek at what little or no parenting, encouraged by misguided welfare policy, has done to inner city blacks. Young adolescents are initiated into the values of wild adolescent males. With obvious results. Killings, shootings, knifings, and bitches and ho’s. Life is brutish, miserable and short.

Yes, we have a lot to look forward to in the bright future of “consensual living” type parenting. It is really is nothing more than the much discounted Rouseauian ideal of “the noble savage.” And remember, Rousseau put all six of his kids in an orphanage. Typical liberalism — do as I say, not as I do…

Juveniles growing up without adults are unable to form stable, functional social units and are especially unable to rear young.

Parents who fail to teach their children how to be civil members of society do more than just harm their child, they inflict upon the rest of us a danger and rot who may never be reformed.

And work ethic is flat-lining.

I now have two children in university. They have both told me how grateful they are for my “standing firm” when necessary. Yes, children do want boudaries. They need to know that someone is looking out for them, however much they may fight the rules.

psrostitution here, but what is the difference between this and the “middle class” parents here that bring their girls to the gynecologist when they are teens and put them on birth control? Parenting advice by popular psychologists isn’t any different here, it’s nonsense too and most churches aren’t even speaking out against it.
The US is no different, here girls are encouraged to girls sleep with guys just as part of being a teen, instead of for electronics.

By that I mean dont cherry pick your districts. Redmonton, as its known in the province, is a bastion of this deadly lib thought. Thats because its the capital and so its filled with career bureaucrats, career students, career politicians, and of course, home to the prov union.

Also, the Globe and Mail is the peoples daily, comrade.

With that said I will pivot to agree with you. Importance of Order, as Tommy Carlyle would say. We recently, in Canada, had some girl get her boyfriend to kill another girl in exchange for sex, and they were all like 15 years old. Id blame Trudeau, but its really the fault of the people who voted him in.

Be wary of this Obama cat. He smells a little like Trudeau.