Thread: Qualifications for parents

Originally Posted by Sailor

Sad but true. I think that many of those who are parents today have maybe been raised without role models (if at all) so they simply do not know how to raise their kids. Or they are too deep in their own career/hobbies/social life whatever that they do not have time to spend with their kids. Pure egoism or even hedonism plays is a large part in a lives of some people today. A pessimist in me says that it is going to get worse when the kids, who were "raised" by those parents, grow up some day.
Another issue is that our society puts much more pressure on people today than it did some 50 years ago. People get tired, spent much more time away from home and kids.

Then again old timers like me have always thought that kids are growing wrong. Hope my mumble is just that

I dont' think its a lack of roll models, but that TV and movie stars are the new role models. In our culture, famous > goodness. So kids these days are shown the obnoxious and absurd getting the attention (and often praise) and naturally follow suit.