Break out the silly string and whistles - Viagra is 10 years old! What is wrong with our world? My son - almost 10 now knows that if he has an erection lasting more than 4 hours he should contact his doctor immediately. You can't turn on a TV - during "family hours" and not be inundated with erectile dysfunction commercials, or video games that are rated M showing violence toward women or pictures of girls with barely anything on. We send so many mixed messages to our children. What has pushed this mom over the edge though is the advertisements for the new movie "Zack and Miri Make a Porno". It was a lovely dinner when I got to explain to my children what a porno is. As parents we are constantly forced to battle the outside influences that are kids are subjected to in every environment they go to. You walk through the mall and see 14 & 15 year olds shopping for maternity clothes. Some of these girls are on their second and third child by the time they are 18. Where did we go wrong as a society? We have daycares in schools - not for the staff but for the students. We have girls forming "pregnancy pacts". We resist sex education and say it should be taught in the home but when you have babies having babies and they were never taught safe sex practices how do they pass that on to their own children? Why is it okay that our commercials tell them how to keep it up but not that they should wrap it up before they use it? Our schools shouldn't be forced to be the mom's and dad's but someone needs to step up and change things. Our education system is broken, our families are broken and we sit back and as a society do nothing.
Have you ever found yourself wondering where all this will lead us? Think about this - the baby boomers are starting to retire and draw their social security. In the past - they were the largest part of our workforce and were the largest contributors to our social security fund. Now the generation Xers and the Y's are the work force and they are a much smaller group than the baby boomers so what we put in to social security can't keep up w/ what they are taking out. Then you have the medicaid and welfare population that are also drawing from the same tax rolls. Again, another large population. So you have these very two large groups pulling from a very limited pool of resources. I haven't heard either candidate talk about how they plan to fix that situation. Our youth is so disengaged from society. We have families who are lifelong welfare recipients and we offer them very little incentive to change their status. So....as the generation in the middle - what are you doing to personally change and make an impact on this conundrum? This is my challenge to you to step up and find your voice about this issue - be a mentor, give a hand up to someone, raise your children to be engaged in the political process and to stand up for their beliefs and instill in them a moral and ethical code that will be a lifelong journey that will change the future of their children - which they won't rush to have at 15 and 16.
This is Pandora wishing the world was a safer place to raise my children....raise your children....raise our country's children.....
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