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Parents' “Non”-Sense is Killing Our Children

Domenick J. Maglio, Ph.D. Neo-Traditionalist

Americans have been indoctrinated by PC nonsense since the counter culture of the 1960s. As members of the Age of Aquarius we were told to “do our own thing” in the new world of “sex, drugs and rock and roll”. These juvenile notions have corroded our social and moral fabric causing radical changes throughout our society. This modern nonsense that today’s parents are blindly following is killing our children.

This modern cultural “non”-sense does not prepare our children with moral and common-sense training leaving youth defenseless to negative influences and exposing them to many potentially dangerous situations. When parents don’t marry, spend too much time on their careers, go on two-day trips to concerts without their children or take weeklong vacations with a current boyfriend leaving their children with others, they are living a life of self-gratification. This lifestyle means they generally are not taking care of the business of their children. Modern irresponsible parents are unwittingly creating dangerous circumstances for their children.

Too many adults permit and even encourage their children to dress like harlots and gangsters even as young as primary school age. In addition, many of today’s parents allow their children to be in risky, unsupervised situations. At earlier and earlier ages children are pushed to go to sleepovers, at times even co-ed ones, attend concerts as preteens and are permitted to go to alcohol parties at parent’s homes or in rented hotel rooms arranged by parents. Unbelievably modern parents often expose their children to the parent’s own risqué get togethers with their friends. Children are given too much access to the internet, music and television programming.

Modern non-sense makes our children vulnerable to people with evil intent. Even at resort vacations with the family parents do not feel the need to directly supervise their children. They put them with “kid’s clubs” while the parents “do their own thing”. It is understandable why today’s children believe they are entitled to freedom to go any place they want to go including spring break vacations to Florida, Cancun or Aruba while still attending high school! Modern children have been taught at an early age that they are on their own. Although few children have developed the social, moral and emotional maturity to make correct choices for their own protection, these children are left to fend for themselves.

Dylan and Shasta Groney, Natalee Hallaway, Jessica Lundsford, Carlee Brusha, Jennifer Odem and hundreds of other missing and murdered children come from fragmented homes. Children from divorced or never married homes have to exist in a significantly different environment from traditional married families. These children have to physically be in at least two different environments, make two different sets of friends, follow different rules and expectations, and move frequently from one parent to another. On top of this the non-married parent often has many boyfriends or girlfriends passing through the child’s life. This adult instability increases the potential for harmful experiences. Fragmented families have little opportunity to develop strong roots in any neighborhood. The children’s peer friendships remain superficial reducing the possibility of establishing concerned, watchful and protective friends and neighbors.

One of the best ways to protect children is to have stable families that consist of a loving mother and father. Successful marriage takes devotion to another. Having children in a marriage is a blessing that requires a lifetime commitment to the children to produce healthy adults. Many modern parents talk about “parental rights” instead of parental responsibility and obligation. These parents want to appear to others as “the parent of the year” without paying the price of doing the little things that add up to the important skills children need to negotiate themselves through life.

Spiritually and emotionally mature parents give up their self-centered interests to give their total energy to raising their children. At times in a marriage parents have to put aside their personal frustration with their spouse and stay together “for the sake of the children”.

The modern cultural non-sense of being only concerned with oneself is placing our children in mortal danger. Parents being mature and giving of themselves are vital to the development and survival of children. The choice is left to each parent to significantly affect the destiny of his or her child towards triumph or tragedy.