Where Are All The Kids?

Townhall.com ^ | August 5, 2013 | Kurt Schlichter

[stanne]

Ah. No one, including the writer, finds it worth mentioning that the parents are killing the kids?

Fifty five million reported surgical abortions in the US since 1973. Estimates triple that of chemically induced abortions

CDC has these statistics.

[yldstrk]

I hate that stupid phrase ever since obama used it

[John O]

In 1973 the APA delisted homsoexuality as a mental disease, and life changed.

Now instead of being shunned and chased out of neighborhoods the faggots were accepted and celebrated. And with the faggots come child molestors (as every faggot is, or must be considered as, a child molestor. Cross perversion boundary and the others get crossed far more easily)

So now we have neighborhoods where perverts are accepted and our children are no longer safe. Of course we’re not going to let them out of our sight.

Then we have to add to that the rash of kidnappings and rapes. Another plague of perversion that was enabled by that 1973 decision. If we cross one perversion boundary, it’s much easier to cross teh next one. We’ve had two college girls in the last 4 years disappear from a town near here. They finally found one’s body and they are still looking for the other one. My girl is smaller than either of them. If they were snagged off the street than what’s to prevent my girl from being snagged?

If we had suitable penalties for sex criminals (death or castration come to mind) then we’d have fewer sex criminals. It used to be that child molestation was an instant 20 years. Now it’s not so sure. If the molestor is a faggot it’s likely they’ll get off with a hand slap as they are “born that way” accoridng to the rest of the faggots that have infested our courts.

This country has got to return to God and the values and ideals of our Founding Fathers else we are hopeless

[headstamp 2]

My forked stick that replicated an M-1 Garand and Murial Air-Tip cigar butt from when we used to play “Army” are still around here somewhere.

(grin)

[yldstrk]

abortion?

[IronJack]

What scares me about this “vanishing children” phenomenon is what it’s doing to kids’ imaginations. We had a treehouse when we were kids (nowadays you’d have to get an EPA Impact Analysis done and the Sierra Club would burn your house down if you drove a nail into a tree), and that treehouse was Fort Apache, a bombed-out store in Bastogne, a pioneering settlement on Alpha Centauri (and the spaceship that got us intrepid explorers there), the fast attack submarine Sea Lion or a swift three-masted corsair. We defended it with picket-fence swords, tree-branch cannons, and laser ray-guns shaped oddly like mom’s broom handles and with sound effects that left us so hoarse we could hardly ask for the mashed potatoes that night at mess call. Our imaginations soared and sometimes our games would last for days.

With all that mindpower replaced by 3-D flashing images and Dolby Surround-Sound and Mattel Scratch-n-Sniff, a machine does all the mental heavy lifting for you. And it directs you where IT wants you to go, not where the random flight of your imagination would take you.

Maybe I’m just a geezer but I’ll take my treehouse.

[ABN 505]

Know what you are sayin, A friend of mine had to stop and relieved himself in the woods on a uninhabited section of town [I think most of us have had to do that at one time or another]. He was arrested by a passing cop and is now an official sex offender. He says his mistake was admitting that he took a pee , he should have said he stopped to look at a bird..

[stanne]

55 million and counting

Duh

[Mr Ramsbotham]

When I was a kid, my mother would literally drive me out of the house. "Go out and play!" she'd yell.

"But there's no one to play with!" I'd protest.

"Play with yourself!" she'd say.

[i_robot73]

Let’s see:
- Big gov’t that practically requires both parents to work to pay the bills = parent no longer home after school to look out for brood
- Big gov’t no longer keeping the danger/crazy at bay, releasing same upon the street w/ no accountability when the SHTF w/ their ‘feel-good’ Liberal policies
- The hoard of lawyers that have stripped communities of play areas, play grounds, community pools, etc.
- Advent of the portable electronics.

Now, as to the last point, even I, as product of this age, don’t account it for much. My parents WOULD kick my @ss out to go play and there’s only so much tweeting/Facebook/surfing/playing before it gets old, tiring or the batteries runs out.

IMHO, the most harm has been the ‘befriending’ by ‘parents’ instead of being a parent. Kids expecting chauffeuring, $$, and generally not knowing how to behave (and parents not doing SH!T about that bad behavior).

[rarestia]

I grew up in a very rural area. Tons of orange groves and undeveloped land. Every tract of that land is residential now. Coupled with the Internet and cable TV, there’s really little need for kids to go outside, and the parents can remain watchful sentinels.

I saw first hand this weekend how our generation was affected. While I was outside covered to my elbows with grease, soaked in sweat, my brother, three years my junior, was all too quick to dismiss himself inside when the clouds broke. Couldn’t stand the heat.

[Rich21IE]

What are we doing as a nation? Unbecoming a nation. The single most basic thing I sense going on is a complete loss of any hope for a better future. People feel trapped in an alien environment over which they have little control. All they can do is go through the daily routine. In the back of their minds, they’re waiting for the next shoe to drop. Everyone’s afraid of everyone else and especially afraid of the “other”, whether the “other” be a person of a different race, religion or national origin. And, considering the Leftists jack up of certain racial and religious groups, its smart to be wary. White kids in particular have a target on their backs, “This is for Trayvon”. The nation is dividing up along tribal lines and will soon divide up along regional lines. North Colorado seeking to secede from South Colorado is a perfect example. The ultimate break-up of this thing will be contentious and possibly bloody.

[wbill]

With all of the digital gadgets, who needs outside anymore, right

I take my kids to the playground (they're not old enough to walk there alone, yet). Contrary to this article, I see plenty of kids running around, going full tilt.

It's the *adults* that I see, sitting on benches, twiddling with those stupid Iphones, checking their email or facebook status for the 20th time that hour. I'm right in the middle of everything, pushing swings, flying kites, refereeing games of tag, whatever. It's fun.

As an aside, I never cease to be amazed, and saddened, at the number of kids - who aren't mine - who ask to play with me. "Will you push me?", "How does this kite work?", "Hey mister, Watch This!!", etc etc etc. They just want some attention, is all. Their parent is sitting right there, in plain sight, and can't be bothered to get off their (usually large) butt, put down the smart phone for five minutes, and give their spawn that five minutes of attention....

[Slyfox]

I asked a cop friend I served with in the Army if this was just paranoia. He said he wouldn’t let his kids play on the front yard unless he was out there with his Remington 870. That answered that.

I grew up in Flint Michigan before it went all to hell. I would often get on my bike after loading up my pockets with some snacks and ride all day without informing my mom where I was going.

When I moved to Texas and had kids, I bought a house on a cul de sac, and my kids had free reign of our one block. I thought it was sad that they could not have the freedom I had as a kid but to give them more knowing the increased dangers in the world I would have been a negligent parent to do otherwise.

Let us all thank the libs for all their policies which have made our world a much more dangerous place in which to bring up kids.

[wbill]

Guy gets drunk in bar....

Yep, that's the issue I have with these "helpful" sex offender websites. No differentiation between guys who got caught unzipped and watering a bush one time on the way home from a local pub.... and degenerates that you really need to look out for.

[eccentric]

Another point, in the past we had to get out of the house to get away from siblings, usually at least three of them. We didn’t have our own room, so that didn’t get us away from the. Today, most families don’t have more than 3 kids. Fewer kids both inside and out.

[markoman]

And if you put baseball cards in the spokes of your
bike, you had a motorcycle,and you and the guys would ride
around “terrorizing” the neighborhood.

Funny thing is....when I got older and got a real motorcycle,
it wasn’t quite the same....

[jboot]

My granddad made me a treehouse that looked like a for-real P51 Mustang. It had a working joystick, pedals and a back seat for my chums. Pap angled it slightly upwards and cut away the branches in such a way that with very little effort it seemed like you were climbing high into the sky to duke it out with the Luftwaffe. It was satisfyingly high up so that if anyone had fallen out they'd have broken a leg, at least. Nobody ever did, of course. It was great fun for years until a thunderstorm broke it up.

I wonder if anyone would even think that was fun today.

[moovova]

Writer described my childhood perfectly.

Well, he did leave out the “red dirt” bike track at the edge of the woods...pedal bike that is...banked turns & pit stops even...we spent hours...circling, racing, tangling up, falling, getting up, back to circling, round and round and round...sweat/blood/red dust made a fine salve. Mom’s standard response after coming home...”Don’t stop...straight to the tub. And the tub had better be clean when you’re finished.”.

[bgill]

A nearby town is closing their pool because no one goes to it anymore. It’s a small town with very little to do as it is and now there will be even less. If Moo wants to blame something for kids being fat and unhealthy, she needs to blame the parents for allowing their kids to become couch potatoes with their video games and cell phones.