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To: MarvinStinson; Drew68
Rowe said that the children of recent generations are not radically different from those that preceded them; rather it is "the parents who have changed."

Mike Rowe will literally be crucified.

That is something people absolutely do not want to confront.

3 posted on 03/29/2018 5:00:28 AM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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Yes and no. The Columbine shooter had a very demanding father who was obviously concerned about him...and the kid started his spree by killing both his mother and the father. The same thing happened in WA a couple of years ago. The killer started by killing his parents.

I think a father is more likely to recognize than a mother that there’s something wrong with his kid that may need outside help, and possibly more effective in getting it. But really, the problem lies not only with family conditions but with social expectations. Once upon a time, a kid who was engaging in any of the behavior that led up to the killings would have been institutionalized, not only at the request of his parents, but at the request of schools and law enforcement.

Back in the 70s, some idiot (possibly Abbie Hoffman) announced that “only the mad were truly sane,” because they were reacting to the horrors of capitalism. And then we had books like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and others that all made heroes out of the mentally ill, heroes who were just exercising their right to express themselves.

Mental illness is real, but we stopped admitting that because mental illness could be used as an attack upon capitalism and supposedly bourgeois, conformist American society. Of course, marriage, parents and intact families were all part of the evil against which the mentally ill were expressing themselves.


9 posted on 03/29/2018 5:13:52 AM PDT by livius
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Oh no Mike, don’t go there........... you will taking on the socialist, big government believers and abortion advocates, or as I like to call them the media!


14 posted on 03/29/2018 5:26:12 AM PDT by Lockbox
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To: KC_Lion

I don’t think ‘literally’ means what you think it means.


18 posted on 03/29/2018 5:52:19 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: KC_Lion
The government subsidizes single parent homes and now is paying the price. The government should subsidize two-parent, stable homes.
36 posted on 03/29/2018 10:22:56 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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