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Part of the equation is undoubtedly the financial resources kids have access to but you have to also factor in what the parents teach children. If a parent is

by dm2 12y ago

Part of the equation is undoubtedly the financial resources kids have access to but you have to also factor in what the parents teach children. If a parent is financially irresponsible and just sits their children in front of the TV to act as a babysitter, the child will have trouble getting ahead in life. I would like to see a study based on the professions of parents rather than their income. Will a parent who is a scientist, engineer, or teacher generally produce a child who is eager to learn? How do mentors affect the outcome of children? Is there a substantial positive result when a child has a mentor that supports them and teaches them the things that they don't learn in school? If so, why aren't mentors encouraged more in society? The concept of a mentor was never even proposed to me until late in college, other than the big brothers/sisters advertisements occasionally seen on TV, and they seemed targeted at the orphaned children or children living with grandparents. Basic financial responsibility and many other basic life skills are simply not taught in school, it's expected to be taught at home. The problem is that many parents do not realize this and fail to ever teach their children anything positive. Children generally think that their parents are the best people in the world and try to imitate everything they do, that's where the cycle happens. Is there any kind of government subsidies for mentors? If someone devotes their entire day to helping out several children, that person should be paid, the parents cannot afford to pay them, who will?

pessimizer 12y ago
>Part of the equation is undoubtedly the financial resources kids have access to but you have to also factor in what the parents teach children. A problem with this type of discussion is that when people lack financial resources, they often also lack other resources that come with financial resources, such as education or parents who had time to teach them anything that they could either use in raising their children or for teaching to their children. >If a parent is financially irresponsible and just sits their children in front of the TV to act as a babysitter I don't see the relation of the first part of the phrase to the last part of this phrase. >Basic financial responsibility and many other basic life skills are simply not taught in school, it's expected to be taught at home. I'm not aware of any relationship between financial responsibility and wealth. Plenty of wealthy people are financially irresponsible, and plenty of poor people are not. You're operating under the capitalist-spiritual assumption that everyone is in the place that they belong because of some intrinsic quality in themselves; therefore if someone is poor, then they are obviously more financially irresponsible than people who are not poor. There are quite a few obvious original sins if you want to consider why a particular family may be poor. Nobody in my family really knew how to read until my grandmothers' generation, and they don't read well now. You could blame that on bad parenting, but it might be more useful to blame that on a society that had no interest in whether they or their parents could read at all, and at one period prevented them from being taught by force of law. Maybe crushing poverty and constant racial discrimination? Anything but 'financial responsibility.'

by dm2 12y ago

pessimizer 12y ago

>Part of the equation is undoubtedly the financial resources kids have access to but you have to also factor in what the parents teach children. A problem with this type of discussion is that when people lack financial resources, they often also lack other resources that come with financial resources, such as education or parents who had time to teach them anything that they could either use in raising their children or for teaching to their children. >If a parent is financially irresponsible and just sits their children in front of the TV to act as a babysitter I don't see the relation of the first part of the phrase to the last part of this phrase. >Basic financial responsibility and many other basic life skills are simply not taught in school, it's expected to be taught at home. I'm not aware of any relationship between financial responsibility and wealth. Plenty of wealthy people are financially irresponsible, and plenty of poor people are not. You're operating under the capitalist-spiritual assumption that everyone is in the place that they belong because of some intrinsic quality in themselves; therefore if someone is poor, then they are obviously more financially irresponsible than people who are not poor. There are quite a few obvious original sins if you want to consider why a particular family may be poor. Nobody in my family really knew how to read until my grandmothers' generation, and they don't read well now. You could blame that on bad parenting, but it might be more useful to blame that on a society that had no interest in whether they or their parents could read at all, and at one period prevented them from being taught by force of law. Maybe crushing poverty and constant racial discrimination? Anything but 'financial responsibility.'