Should we clean up America’s culture?
We must clean up America’s culture, beginning in every home. A new callousness can be seen on our television sets and movie theaters, in video games and on magazine racks. While parents remain the first line of defense in the fight to protect our children from inappropriate media content, some of the responsibility for this effort also rests with the producers and distributors of modern media. With this in mind, I introduced the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2006 and was pleased to see the President sign it into law. The Act increased fines on broadcast networks that air obscene and indecent material during the hours children are most likely to be watching. Shielding our children from the violence, obscenity, and indecency in today’s media continues to be one of my top priorities. I have also introduced a bill that would promote greater accuracy and transparency in the rating of video games.
Yes, America’s culture needs to be cleaned up. While parents are, as you say, the first line of defense, we have to be mindful of the thousands and thousands of children who have little or no parental influence, particularly between the hours that school lets out and parents get home. Sadly, many children have a parent that must work more than one job; and, even more sadly, some have parents who have so little interest in their children that they don’t bother to come home ~ these, the children who raise themselves. Who is there to moderate what these children watch on television?
The callousness that you mention is not seen only in media venues; it is clearly seen in the attitudes and actions of our young people: physical violence against one another, the lack of morals, the lack of respect for anyone or anything, their issues of entitlement, killing one another over something as insignificant as a pair of tennis shoes and their *lack* of horror toward that which is horrific. The change in America’s youth from even just 35 years ago is staggering.
Cleaning up movies, television programming, radio programming, video games and magazines is something that can, to an extent, be done. But until we have parents who take an interest, and an active role, in the proper rearing of their child(ren) ~ including that to which they are exposed, who make the time to take the time with their children, and who teach their children the value of a dollar and the ethics of hard work rather than handing them a credit card and sending them to the mall, we are not likely to get far.
Do you want to end deliquency in America? Do you want to clean up our culture? Then impose more fines and punishments upon parents who fail to properly raise their children. Seriously. If the school cannot discipline a child anymore, then impose a monetary fine upon the parent for bad behaviors, even beyond the child destroying property. Does the kid have a toilet mouth and used it against the teacher? Fine the parent. Let these fines be paid to the individual school and used to purchase materials and/or equipment the school needs.
Juvenile delinquency? I think that would be easily solved. We have those ankle cuffs that keep people imprisoned at home, right? Modify them so that the parent wears one and the delinquent wears one. Make it so that the alarm goes off if parent and child are separated by more than six feet and make it very illegal with more than just ‘hand slap’ fines if an employer fires an employee because they are ‘cuffed’ to their child. I guarantee you one of two things will happen: Either the child will quickly be taught to behave once the parent gets a good look at what their child is really doing or the parent will annihilate the child ~ either way, the problem is going to be solved.
Stop this ridiculous “everyone passes” cr*p and LET KIDS FAIL. One of the biggest problems we have is that children are not allowed to fail. Example: peewee football: all teams go to the PeeWee Superbowl playoffs, even if their team stinks and never won a single season game. Well, here’s reality: no one wins all the time and everyone fails at one time or another. Why aren’t children being taught this, anymore?
I applaud your efforts to get media-based matters cleaned up as much as possible. It is desperately important to shield children from violence, obscenity and indencency. It is equally as desperately important for a **parent** to *teach* them right from wrong, Your effort, while a successful one and one i’m sure many people are grateful for, is but a drop in the bucket of what the U.S. is up against where our children are concerned.
**KUDOS** to Chris!! First, particularly your remark about “Hillary (and her) ‘takes a village’ book. First of all, this wasn’t Hellery’s idea; secondly, when i was a child, the “takes a village” concept was in place, just not like Hellery defines it. If we did something very, very wrong while playing up the street, the Mom of whomever we were playing with did not hesitate to give us a moderate (but effective) spanking and send us home. Meanwhile, she was calling our Mom to advise her what we had done and there was then parental discipline.
Secondly, your statement of not needing government down the backs of parents. Most parents are afraid to paddle their childrens’ behinds. There is a huge difference in a much deserved paddling and beating a child. No injuries or broken bones have ever resulted from a responsible paddling … but a lot of bad habits have certainly been broken. There is no reason to beat a child. Clocking your 17 y/o because he/she thought they were big enough to clock you is a different matter.
An example of this governmental interference: after my sister’s husband died 2 years ago, she and their 10 y/o son were staying with me prior to the Memorial service. The son said something that really deserved a paddling. My sister said “You will NOT speak like that again and you will NOT do that again or you WILL get a spanking.” My nephew, at 10 years old, replied “You spank me and I will call Child Protective Services and turn you in! They taught us how to do that in school!” I was not just shocked; i was outraged. If they are going to teach this, then teach the *difference* between responsible paddling vs beating and teach them how to call and report violent abuse and beatings, but make sure they know the difference.
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