"I hate you, you F...g B...ch!" If my kid had said something like that to me LAST WEEK, he'd still be rubbing his raw-red cheek from the open-handed BITCH slap I'd have wailed on his insolent face.
But then, my kids woudn't have said that in a zillion years, or for a zillion dollars. It's not in them, because of the way they were raised.
My kids are actually much better behaved than I am, in certain ways, and (respectfully) upbraid me when I cross a line. They're 19 (girl) and 11 (boy).
I have observed this, over a couple generations: The worst-behaved kids are the kids of LIBERALS, in general. In general, the best-behaved kids are the kids of CONSERVATIVES. I could write two thousand words on why this is so, but a) most of the answers are included implicitly in this thread, and b), I'm preaching to the choir, so I'll save myself some time.
I have also tracked a few liberal-raised kids in my fairly affluent town here in suburban Pittsburgh, having seen them from pre-school to college, and I can report this: the lost souls we all know of, the ones with inchoate rage who can't really "find themselves"? From liberal households, every one. And they're parents still don't get it. They have saddled their children with a likely lifetime of misery. That is their mortal sin for which I will not forgive them.
"The worst-behaved kids are the kids of LIBERALS, in general. In general, the best-behaved kids are the kids of CONSERVATIVES."
In simple terms, it's because conservatives accept cause-and-effect while liberals deny its existence.
for anyone who disagrees with you I've got three words; John Walker Lindt. (remember the American Taliban)