[bvw]

Here it is about "culture" -- when you reside within an area, you can not avoid it, nor should you, in many ways. Parents are the most repsonibble for their children -- but everyone in a culture also has a responsibility to the young, to the families that raise the young into moral, ethical, well-adjusted, high-functioning, able, healthy, sane adults.

Some do not mind that they'd live and let live so that the coming generation is raised as rats in heat. Well, there is no future that way. The cesspool doesn't breed health and sanity.

Such an attitide is immoral, vile, mean.

[fml]

Your telling us that even if you decide to ignore your repsonible-ities for rearing your children, there are outside factors that you can, and should, blame for any inaduquacies in your childs upbringing?

[Under the Radar]

So make your own culture. Unplug. You can't do anything about what is on television or in movies or on the radio and in books, magazines, etc. So excise it from your life.

Teach your children to be just the opposite of what popular culture tells them to be. Teach them to be judgemental. When your two year-old sees a picture of Brittany Spears on the cover of a magazine in the grocery store and asks her about it, tell her that it is a picture of a prostitute. When she asks what a prostitute is, tell her it is a woman who uses her body to make money.

You can't influence our culture-at-large-- it is gone to us, never to be regained. The best that you can do is to cloister your family and know that they will make it through the coming dark ages, because you have prepared them well. But we are years past the point where it would be feasible to expect others to share our same mores and values when it comes to raising children. It isn't going to happen.