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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the recognition, acknowledgment and development of treatments for mental health issues is a good thing. I also think the explosion of sexual and gender identities is good. I think they existed but people were forced into polars rather the continuum that makes more sense. It is a good new world in that regard.

The other things are disturbing. It’s like we care less for our neighbors. Even when I hear things here like people hating on little kids who knock on their door to play with their kids and when I see people not helping their neighbors you can see the distancing where we were once a community.

The school shootings bother me most. Not only the guns and the needless death of kids. But what does it take for a kid or kids to get to that point and What is it that changed that we’ve gotten to this point and how are we missing the signs?  I was particularly disturbed by the Ethan Crumbley case where pareants refused to take him home. The parents rejection of sound professional advice is something that has become so common and so different from when people respected those with special training. [/quote]

Ethan is the perfect example of "not my kid" and "it takes a village" gone awry.  These parents want their problems to be everyone else's problems.  Period.

My friends and I had two working parents, we were latchkey kids, and none the worse for it because we were taught responsibility.  Our choices were a job (once a certain age, which happened to be 12 - and that was not a bad thing, at all) or sports or a regular school activity. It taught us how to do for ourselves, and add to the greater good, instead of detracting. "Make yourself useful", was a common mantra in our house, and it is was for the better, long term.

No one had labels, and no one was coddled. Once that started, the place went to sh*t, and hopes for the next generation went out the window.  You can make whatever assumptions you want (a la DCUM) - but we hurt no one, and we learned a life long lesson of responsibility for oneself. [/quote]

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