Reply #26: You are -so- singing my song...

[Robert Cooper]

I'd have your baby but being male and married might cause some complications ;-)

To the education issues you've described, I'd like to add the following:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2288002&mesg_id=2289140
(mostly for the quotes from the U.S. mayors' conference)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2288002&mesg_id=2291102
(covers a lot of ground)

I am in complete agreement regarding the break-down of the family (going from the 'nuclear family' to the 'sub-atomic family'). It is likely the number one cause of anxiety in the lives of children. At no time in our past have so many children been kept so distant from their parents for so long. Behavioural problems are to be expected. Is it any wonder the birth rate per thousand is declining?

Without a fundamental paradigm shift in how we parent our kids, the trend is leading towards a loss of parenting skills along with a Soviet-style Nanny state.

God help individuality and independence if those days come, we're almost there now.