What Responsibilities Do Parents Have Toward Their Children?

A few days ago, there was that article about how Chinese moms are superior to Western moms. OF course the elephant in the room wasn't mentioned. (There are lousy parents of all races - Susan Smith anybody? - but let's stick with statistics.)

To date, most white kids graduate from high school. (Of course that may well change in the future, since more white kids are being born out of wedlock than ever before...)

Most black kids and most Latino kids drop out of school.

So when this author was talking about and criticizing Western moms...which lousy parents was she talking about? It seems like its the parents of minorities who - statistically speaking - do not value education for their children. Usually because tehre's only one parent, the mom, and she never graduated from high school herself and is living just fine on welfare, thank you.

I was reading a blog today, from a Caucasian woman in England. She has a 19 year old daughter...who lives a couple of streets down from her. This girl has 2 kids. How can she afford to live away from home? The blog doesn't say, but her room and board, and food, are probably paid for by welfare. (Welfare moms have been much in the news recently in English papers, a lot of them ahve 12 - 14 kids, don't work, and are housed in large mansions which are the only homes large enough to accomodate their broods.)

[Name omitted] makes me catch my breath sometimes with the way she chooses to lead her life and her methods of parenting but it's not my place to jump in with a 'How To...' manual. There isn't one to start off with and I know how I felt when my own mum tried to advise me.

Well, gee, lady, you're her "Mum," aren't you? You've made mistakes and you've learned from them - one hopes. Yeah, you know how you felt when your mum tried to advise you but 10 years on you know she was right, don't you?

Seems like this mum is failing her kid, and her kid with her two daughters is failing them. And, I'd be willing to bet cash money that the two daughters of this girl will also get pregnant at age 16 and live off welfare, too. It's the new norm, and it's a tragedy.

[I'm not saying, by the way, that a woman shouldn't have a child out of wedlock if she wants to. But only if she can afford to bring it up properly. But most children born out of wedlock, statistically speaking, come from teenage moms and live in poverty and on welfare all their lives.]