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Originally posted by prettyredhead,
Sorry if I sounded offensive Syra.......I just get very protective and passionate about childrens rights. I want for every child under 5 to have a parent home full time, when possible.
I am grateful that I live where I live. Many people travel to Joliet or even Chicago to work (88 miles) but not me, that is insane to me.
I wish we all had to live simpler lives......... not so driven by the damn old dollar. Too bad people could not use the barter system anymore....
And yes, somtimes children abandon their folks to a "old folks home" and forget about them, except the manditory Christmas. People in America are selfish unless it something like a terrorist attack. That is what it takes for people to stop and think of others, disaster, or death. We are too driven to keep up appearances. It is sick. Can I come live with you???? lol  |
Don't worry, I understood where you were coming from - and I agree.
I too am quite passionate about children's rights (and the adults they will become) , especially that the more I live, the more I see what an enormous amount of future parents fail to think about their ability to give their kids a good start in life, BEFORE they actually go ahead and conceive them.
This is a biggie to me - because once you have them (without having planned very seriously), it's well...too late..."fait accompli" - and the only thing left to do when people fail to give their kids a good start in life, is getting defensive.
I hear too many self-righteous parents who say "well, I was poor too, I struggled, I didn't have it easy either" (my own mother said this kind of bullshit to me recently) - and almost sound as if it's not a problem if they prepare the same fate for their children.
It's as if they wish hard times to their own child - simply because they went through the same crap themselves. Talk about "revenge of the stupid".
'Cause if they'd really enjoyed the times of poverty and struggle, and think this is good for their kids too, they wouldn't talk so bitterly about it.
In this world, there are two types of parents: those who procreate altruistically and those who procreate selfishly.
Unfortunately, the distribution is very skewed, with very few in the first category and an enormous amount in the latter.
And considering that we live in a society where economics is pretty much everything, it is no wonder that you see more and more adult children "abandoning" their folks to "old folks homes" - as you put it.
Many of them are simply trying to keep up with the life their parents doomed them to, going away for jobs, moving all the time, competing in the rat race with the children of those who procreated altruistically...(not an easy task).
Cannot expect much when you yourself did not have much to offer.
But then again...life is not fair. And when you perpetuate and enable unfairness without flinching, the unfairness will come back to haunt you, sooner or later.