It is the mothers & motherly love that civilize the children the most, & the fathers to enforce that love & civilization. Now, the mother works all day & there is no father. Little time is left in the day to spend with the kids. Civilizing the kids is left to paid strangers who have little stake in civilizing your kids. They are there primarily for the money & little else. There is no love from strangers to re-enforce the lessons learned.
It is my belief that if you haven't civilized your kids by age 6-7, then you have failed. At 6, the "system" takes over with it amoral attitudes that kill any sense of right & wrong. Add to that the growing influence of other kids who are just a morally ignorant.
Yet now, many new parents turn their kids over to the "system" right after birth. My own niece put her new born twins in day care so she could begin teaching in elementary school. Teaching other kids is more immediately important that spending precious time with your OWN twins?
My wife taught 4 year olds for many years. They put problem kids in her class, including the children of teachers, so that they could be taught to behave.
A child can begin to understand right and wrong as early as 6 months. They are well aware of their strong self will by then. As you said, if they are not civilized by 6 or 7 then they may end up having a very difficult time in life.
After that, “One Day Motivation” or “Motivation Platoon” at Parris Island are some of the very few things that can rectify the problem. Jail or prison seem to fail in that task.
It is my belief that if you let such a system take over the education of your child, you are committing child abuse and sacrificing your child to the cause of America's destruction.
We are at this point today because so many parents neglected their children and let them be warehoused by liberal institutions. Some so-called conservative parents are still doing this.
If you support the system with your tax dollars and your children's minds, you have no standing to complain.