Harsh Reality
Discipline, maturity, parental oversite and personal responsibility.
These are the main FAILINGS of youth, families and parenting these days.
IN GENERAL and in more cases than not, psychologists will confirm:
(1) Some 'parents' don't have time to raise their offspring... too busy making money hand over fist to keep up their 'social status' at the country club. Therefore, no discipline.
(2) Youth these days lack maturity because everything is given to them on a silver platter just to shut them up. Parents do not allow them to mature by living through the teachings and lessons of life experiences.
(3) Parental Oversite is a joke. If parents don't have time to raise their young properly, they certainly won't take the time to be involved and find out about what the kids are doing on their own - until it is too late.
(4) Personal responsibility is a concept that is not taught any longer by the educational system OR by parents. Kids are left to fend for themselves and without role models to look up to and to learn from regarding traditional family values, no sense of personal responsibility is instilled in youth any longer. Since they are not supervised, lack maturity, and no one is there to oversee their activities, personal responsibility does not exist in most cases.
While it is sad to have anyone die in such a manner as Mark has mentioned, it is totally understandable as to how these things take place.
If the FAMILY were closer, took care of each other, saw to each other's needs and had TIME for each other and God, these incidents would be significantly reduced in frequency.
This harsh reality may be difficult to read, but just stop and think as to what values were in place when your grandparents were raising their young and compare that to today's permissive society... you will see where we, as the human race, are headed. And where is this coming from? The doctrines of Satan are much easier to follow than the Doctrines of God and Jesus Christ. THAT is where this societal change is coming from.
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