Tuesday, April 15, 2014
The Elephant's New Clothes: The Care and Feeding of the American Domestic Terr...
The Elephant's New Clothes: The Care and Feeding of the American Domestic Terr...: Transforming an otherwise healthy adolescent into a serial killer, mass murderer, or domestic terrorist is a three step process. The first...
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I applaud the Elephant's candor in speaking out in regards to the ways in which this country has been helping to create "victims gone mad"; those persons who experience trauma after trauma, and disappointment followed by mixed messages of a feigned sense of caring and support from institutions that were originally intended for just such a purpose.
In cities like New Bedford where drug use is rampant, and child neglect and abuse is ever present, the need for real intervention at the early parenting level is imperative. Adults who have been found to be incompetent as parents should be admonished at the very least, and prosecuted fully for criminal behavior. Much of what occurs behaviorally by students in the classroom setting (as early as pre-kindergarten) is happening as a result of poor and neglectful parenting. And unfortunately, the education system has contributed to this outcome. In their initially well-meaning care and nurturing of children, educators have "enabled" parents by allowing them to be free of their responsibilities, such as feeding and clothing their own children. Schools in urban districts now provide breakfast and lunch, clothing, school supplies, mental health care, and in some places, medical and dental care for children, whose parents would be held responsible for these basic needs in any other type of school district. The burden to educators has become so great, and the parents have been allowed to become so lax in their duties, that unless true intervention on the part of social services, mental health facilities, police departments, and other governmental agencies is implemented, there will be no change to the growing number of antisocial personality disordered individuals this country can produce.
Well said. This message needs to be heard routinely by the public.
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