Its a tough job – being a parent today. In his new book , CNN commentator Jack Cafferty extols that parenting is in decline.
Now or Never: Getting Down to the Business of Saving Our American Dream
There are no perfect parents, perfect kids, perfect families — only degrees of dysfunction.
You get up in the morning and do the best you can. At the end of the day you say, “Okay, that wasn’t so bad, let’s try it again tomorrow.” Some of my instincts were pretty good and some of them were awful.
I did stay engaged and didn’t say to hell with being a father when my first marriage ended. With the younger girls, I eventually made the choice to clean up my alcoholism before I pushed things to the point of no return. But most of the credit does to my second wife Carol; to the girls; and to God Almighty. Ultimately, I’ve just been very fortunate.
I don’t know the status of parenting in America. But I know a little about the status of education in America. Parents’ growing inability to impose manners and limits on their kids when the kids are in school is reflected in record dropout rates, as well as teen drug and alcohol abuse, teen sex, and unwed pregnancies. Maybe it’s parenting that’s on the decline, more than the schools. Watch Jack Cafferty talk about “Now or Never” in The Situation Room“
Do you agree? Is parenting on the decline? We would love to hear what you think.
Source: CNN
