We'll relocate for a raise or a promotion without enough thought on how the move will affect our family. We're so worried about the positive possibilities of meeting a quota or the negative possibilities that we don't have the time or energy to worry as constructively as we should about our kids. As parent loyalty and identity shifts to career and company, other parts of the private sector are hard at work winning the loyalty of kids to various brands , or styles , or sports teams , or TV and music personalities and life styles. The courts, the legal systems, the legislatures, and every conceivable kind of agency or bureau also increasingly substitute themselves into the traditional roles and functions of families. Courts are so preoccupied with individual rights that they ignore and undervalue family rights and responsibility.
Children can sue their parents.
Child protective services can take kids from their parents on the hearsay of neighbors. Custody rulings seem designed to pull families apart. Legislatures keep trying to fix things with new laws. Even the community and voluntary sector, the churches an clubs and other neighborhood entities that should be closest and most nourishing to families often seem bent on making the family redundant. Plenty of activities and involvements are offered for kids, but precious few for whole families.