For many years now, I have witnessed a steady yet determined demotion of Parental Authority and of Authority in general. Gone are the days when society could rely on the predominant respect for persons older, in places of Authority and those in Service works. We see and hear of Fire engines being called out to a fire, only to be bombarded by youths throwing stones, wood etc at their truck. The Police, once at the pinnacle of respectful social status, now abused, assaulted and generally undermined by bureaucratic needs. Gone are the days when a "Bobby" could clip you round the ear-hole and tell you to behave and get off home or I'll tell your Dad. Gone are the days when Doctors and Nurses would be reverred for their wonderful life saving works. Gone are the days when one parent could go to work and provide for their home and children, giving support to their partner and young folk. The very bed-rock of society's security and behavioural master classes.
Now, as always, we have the minority of delinquent youths running a mock in our homes, streets, schools and countryside. Parents, now, are demoted to mere house keepers for the persons who will provide for our old age, they have limited authority due to the decay driven by short-sighted "do-gooders" who believe in "modern thinking" and forget that children are not, always, known for their rational thinking. Therefore the outlawed "smack" has become a stint in the local social services "lockup" or community service at costs of over £8000.00 per week per child (if in Secure Accommodation). Delinquents, who have ten's of, sometimes 100's of, convictions against them, are allowed to roam at will and subject their whims on any unprepared neighbourhood they favour.
The need for all this developing control is treating the very behaviour which our grandparents would have dealt with at home. The increasing likelihood of your young daughter becoming pregnant before she is 14 years old would have been generally assured by a family environment which provided boundaries and curfews on time out.
There are so many aspects of today's society which could be have been "sorted" by the methods of our grand parents and the prospects of future deterioration is depressingly real.
People in Authority, police, teachers and parents, etc are all not trusted and condemned by an ever increasingly demoralised youth folk. Too many cut backs on social finance has been seen to eliminate places of stress release, the creation of a social attitude which allows teenagers to leave home with support, at the slightest sign of discord in the family. Children, then free, to live a life of unrestrained drinking, drugs and child creation. These children then creating children with even less support and control, etc etc etc.
To stop the rot we need to support our families and allow parental authority to rise from the ashes and bring back the controls which led our children into knowledgeable and supported adulthood. Society needs this and so do our children.
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