You are preaching to the choir here son. Unfortunately, the ones causing these problems simply don't care. As long as someone else, be it a government or a society or a culture or a family member, will enable them to continue this deadbeat behavior, then things will not improve. In fact, they will continue to get worse.GAMESMAN wrote:I guess I am bucking the trend here but I live in Jackson and love it. I live off East Northside Dr in a great neighborhood full of young families with kids. There is some crime in our area but my parents live in Dinsmore and they complain about crime there as well, heck I have a sister who lives in Greenville and she claims the crime there is worse. The sad fact of the mater is that we live in a country with a government that encourages dependency on that government in turn we get people who never become productive. It becomes generational and you have young black boys and some white who have absolutely no structure in their lives. The govt replaced the father in the black family. I don't care what color you are if a boy is raised in an environment with no structure no father figure to form him then the odds of that boy becoming a productive member of society have gone way down. We can sit here and complain about crime all we want but until we have a major overhaul of how we treat the underprivileged in our country then things won't get much better.
This crap we hear about "it takes a village to raise a child" is a complete bastardization of what the African Elders meant when they said that. Yes, community is important. But let's face it. Any penis can make a baby. If you want your child to be worth more than a flying fart at a rolling donut, then you have to be intricately involved in the child's life. In short, "It takes a family to raise a child."
Society will not tell you this. Society assumes that you know this already, even though Society has been trying its absolute hardest to trivialize the rolls of men for well over a generation.
My $0.02. Sorry to hijack the thread. Rant over. If I offended anyone with this post, get over it.
