Married with Children? You're amongst the elite in America.

[javaguru]

from my experience. . .100% of children don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. . .

while i don't disagree that it's better to grow up in a single-parent home than one where the parents a friggin assholes. . .it doesn't excuse the parents from being assholes. . .and, i think that children that grow up in a traditional home with two loving parents are a hell of a lot better off than those that grow up in a single parent home. . .when i was a kid, my friends whose parents divorced got away with a hell of a lot more shit than i did. . .only one set of eyes on them. . .they also got a lot more presents than i did. . .their parents were always competing against one and other for the child's affection and trying to hurt the other one in the process. . .plus the gifts helped the parents deal with the guilt of having fucked up the whole situation to begin with. . .

from my experience, a lot of that "happiness" that the kids are experiencing is as a result of the material gifts that they are showered with and the additional "freedom" that usually exists in a single-parent household. . .while i believe that these children believe that they are happy (see my opening statement), i think that if you surveyed the same kids after they are grown up, the results would be a little different. . .historical perspective generally sheds a completely different light on things. . .

I think the point was how the kids feel about divorce and not whether or not they know what was best for their family. The point was that most kids of divorced parents prefered the divorce to the situation they were in. Most of the issues you mentioned are parenting issues and not issues with the kids themselves.

 

[Longhorn85]

LOL...coming from a man who has never even been married. You're the expert though...lol.

Using that logic, as a divorcee you are not an authority on the subject either. In fact, if anything you have proven that you are an anti-expert on family relationships.

 

[mrplunkey]

do you realize you are painting all children who are in public schools as crack babies?? Do you realize what you're saying??

No, I'm but you're clearly trying to read it that way for dramatic effect.

Do you get that most kids in public schools come from middle class families?? Private education is too expensive for the average middle class family, let alone a poor one.

Which is why we need to give everyone vouchers and let them spend the money however they see fit.

I completely agree that the education system in this country needs to be overhauled.....it would be great if the private sector could take care of it....but I don't see that happening, the "profit" margins just aren't there for them to be interested.

Vouchers. Say it with me a few times... vouchers... vouchers... vouchers...

So it has to be government run.

That's your standard answer to everything. Pretending like you used some logic here in deciding "it has to be goverment run" is laughable. Your answer on every thread is "more goverment" regardless of the subject.

I personally think our government doesn't really give a fuck about educating america's children.......

Of course they don't! When the hell are you going to figure this out? The goverment is run by people. People look-out for their best interests. Anytime you amass billions or even trillions of dollars and assign people to manage it, its going to be abused. So do they "give a fuck" about anything? Well... they do -- they very much care about carving-off the biggest, fattest slice of pork that they can. So how to you address the problem? You make sure there is less pork to fight over. And the only way to do that is to minimize goverment.

the elite's kids get their private education.

Well, you bring up an interesting point. Since you've decided I'm an ivory tower elitist, I guess I should be all for the status quo. That way the public educational system can keep dumbing-down generation after generation of kids which will insure my own children have an advantage going forward. The real elitists out there are the LBJ liberals who in the name of the "war on poverty" have institutionalized the poor into a permanant underclass by making them wards of the state -- and wasted tens of trillions of dollars in the process. But hey, he meant well and I guess good intentions have to count for something.

 

[Bikini Mod]

Using that logic, as a divorcee you are not an authority on the subject either. In fact, if anything you have proven that you are an anti-expert on family relationships.

Where does that leave me on the bell curve?




And just for the record... where are your children educated Plunkey?




Just saying.

 

[Gymgurl]

Is heatherRae divorced? If so I m soooo out of the loop lol

 

[Behemoth]

If parents made decisions on the best interest of their children, my division would close the doors and I would be unemployed.

People are idiots. They fall from the idiot tree.

 

[Bikini Mod]

If parents made decisions on the best interest of their children, my division would close the doors and I would be unemployed.

People are idiots. They fall from the idiot tree.

WERD

Sadly, parents is plural.

I have my 10 year old chastising her teachers because they do not know how to discipline other students to keep them from distracting the children in the class who want, more than anything, to learn.

I told her, "Baby, I want you to realize and remember that just because someone is older than you that does not automatically mean that they are smarter. Be respectfull in your inquiries but remain steadfast untill they give you an acceptable answer." (And yes, I did use that verbage.)

 

[velvett]

If parents made decisions on the best interest of their children, my division would close the doors and I would be unemployed.

People are idiots. They fall from the idiot tree.

DING DING DING


we have a winner

 

[digimon7068]

I think the point was how the kids feel about divorce and not whether or not they know what was best for their family. The point was that most kids of divorced parents prefered the divorce to the situation they were in. Most of the issues you mentioned are parenting issues and not issues with the kids themselves.

egg-zack-ly! polling children to determine if divorce is detrimental is like polling politicians to find out if the government is bad. . .

 

[heatherrae]

Using that logic, as a divorcee you are not an authority on the subject either. In fact, if anything you have proven that you are an anti-expert on family relationships.

Coming from an adulterer who is probably only still married because he is still deceiving his wife by not telling her the truth that he couldn't manage to keep his dick in his pants, I wouldn't throw any stones about other people's relationships if I were you.