Kids EVERYWHERE, cities, burbs, country, wherever, WILL behave if there are interested parents, preferably two. Fatherless boys AND girls have trouble wherever they happen to be, in my opinion. Contrary to what Murphy Brown and the man-hating libbers say, fathers are ESSENTIAL.
Mothers can't do it by themselves, usually; it takes two, as God planned. Divorce has MUCH to do with fractured families. Divorce-remarry-divorce-remarry = kids tossed from pillar to post: fodder for trouble, drugs, etc.
Also, there were just as many extended families in city neighborhoods as there were anywhere else. And, sadly, there are just as FEW extended families now in cities, burbs and small towns, just by the nature of the fractured, transient American families.
In my urban neighborhood I was known and taken care of by any stay-at-home mother. My father was ill and worked only when he could. So my mother worked. I was taken care of by a stay-at-home neighborhood lady named Daisy.
Am I wrong?
Am I wrong?
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I could not disagree with anything that you said about this situation.
When I was a kid growing up in the suburbs in the 1950s, I was corrected, when I was out in public away from my parents, by adults who did not even know me, and it never occurred to me to question that adult’s authority. (Don’t get me wrong I was a well-behaved little girl, but I was an adventurous tomboy, who needed to be told to stop doing dangerous things on occasion.)
Today, childen are not taught to show respect to any adults, including their own parents. They are not taught self-control and often do not see it practiced in their own homes. But I think the primary problem is what you spelled out — fatherless homes.