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Message 1405573 - Posted: 20 Aug 2013, 15:12:00 UTC - in response to Message 1405484.  

In the UK they are legally accountable until age 16, and then partially accountable until 18. Parents can, and are, taken to court and held responsible for their childrens actions. Examples are failure to attend school or criminal acts. The kids can be put into Council care if the parents are deemed to be irresponsible.

Over here the kids are so smart they know the parents, teachers, etc. can't lay a finger on them to discipline them or the kid brings child abuse charges.

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Message 1405661 - Posted: 20 Aug 2013, 21:53:48 UTC - in response to Message 1403978.  

This is why i support selective education. It allows the better pupils to thrive, without being dragged down by the dross who don't want to be there.

I agree, which is why the Comprehensives were a bad idea. I would like to take every educational psychologist and drop the lot overboard in mid Atlantic.

Marriage isn't necessary to have a two-parent family unit.


No it isn't but it is much preferable.

If you mean discipline like what I saw while going to school, I would have to steadfastly disagree.

In the 1950's we still had the slipper on the backside, the ruler across the hand, and the wooden board rubber thrown at you, which with a good aim hurt. These days the teacher would be sued in court for assault. Now we have 5 year olds being expelled from school for spitting at the teachers, and fighting other children. I know who I blame.



Well something is going right somewhere. Perhaps you are looking at the wrong problem? I suspect all those single parent families are to blame for this, perhaps no role model is better than a bad one after all. ;)

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Message 1407386 - Posted: 24 Aug 2013, 18:43:56 UTC - in response to Message 1403986.  

Marriage isn't necessary to have a two-parent family unit.


No it isn't but it is much preferable.

Says who?

Or, ask yourself this which is better two people who want to raise a child together or two people who hate each others guts but are too stupid to get a divorce?

so well said. my parents hated each other. i'm not married to my woman, but we'll die old together, and our kids are happy. its all about that old religious mindset. they want you to get married, etc. but if you spend your entire life with a person who you would always be loyal to, no matter what, how is that NOT marriage?

i'd rather my woman be free to decide if she wants to stay with me, rather than have the rest of society look down upon her because we got in some crazy argument that led to a messy divorce. we're happy the way we are, and eventually we'll probably get married, but it will be for political reasons, not spiritual or religious ones, and it will be on our own terms. dont buy into the you must be married line, thats from religious zealots, and as such should be taken with a grain of salt, in my humble opinion. do what your lover wants, and you'll stay happy. marriage makes guys act retarded, (yes i am male) to the point of YEAH SHES MINE NOW HAHAHAHAHA, and that personally is the scariest thought i could ever have: that i OWN a human being, rather than being delightfully attached to her by my own love.
thats my thoughts on the matter.

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