That hasn't changed. So it remains, what to do about those kids? School can't deal with them, home can't either. Institutions for troubled youth? We have funding and manpower for that? And those are going to look like the schools, anyway.
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rates of alcoholism are much lower, but yeah, most families are ill-equipped to deal with children (in general). perfectly "normal" children have challenging episodes too though. there's nothing special about needing to deal with kids being challenging. this is typical.
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my opinion is that our society is much too atomized and much too dominated by institutions (which have largely rotted and become corrupt and ineffectual). if I was brewing up a solution from scratch it would involve training parents to be better parents.
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heh that should work about as well as mandatory ethics training and if parents don't show up what will you do? take away their kids?
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no, there would be no penalty at all. it wouldn't be mandatory. it would be provided as a public service. why does this seem bad to you? child care is a skill and it can be learned.
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I'm skeptical that the people who would need to show up would show up, and that the teachers would competently impart skills to most parents, and that the curriculum would be a net positive even if conveyed also these institutions probably still exist in the form of Church
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I think you're right that some churches provide some analogous services to some people who attend those services some of the time. now imagine if that was a social norm and was expected of all parents.
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you would have similar issues as the ones that play out when schools make it nearly impossible to expel teenagers who are violent and don't want to be there or hey picture the dynamic of the DMV but for parents
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Oh wait I missed "not mandatory"
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The idea is to provide training for parents who are approximately "normal" but ill-equipped and inexperienced. If we can normalize spending $100K and 4+ years on a bullshit certificate we can normalize training for the most important thing most people will ever do.
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its just not gonna happen imo
peoples behavior is very hard to change
fortunately or unfortunately depending on your other View's there is a solution that will work and probably be implemented within 20 years, rendering this entire discussion moot
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