In general you had a chance for a good school a generation or so ago, but now you don t unless you pay a lot of money for access to it. What family values originally meant was that your family was a unit you looked after and that was supported and nourished by your culture. Look at what comes into the home through TV sets. I m all for ratings for movies and television shows, but it s impossible to protect a kid from being exposed to great vulgarity when growing up these days. You can t avoid saying that television is a large part of the problem, because it is.
TV comes into our lives everywhere.
People eat their meals watching television. I think one of the most important things is knowing who your children s friends are. That s crucial, and it s hard to do if both parents are working every day. Indeed, the old division of labor between mom and dad had its great costs and problems, but it was better for the children. In that nuclear family the mother and the father had different roles, but those roles flowed from their biology.