Does the government know how to raise your kids better than you do?

Question

Does the government know how to raise your kids better than you do?

Answer 1

No but they like to try and run everyones life but havnt got a clue what ther doing apart from causing problems.

Answer 2

It so very much depend on who *you* are. Assuming that you are a parent that loves his child and behaves likewise, of course nobody is as capable as you to educate, raise and care for the baby.

But one has to be so aware of the great variety of parents that people turn to be.

The thing is that the most important matter is the child's well being. If a parent is not capable to offer the baby the minimum security, love and attention, then maybe somebody else is.

Of course, sometimes things are over exagerated and that's when they turn to be really dramatic and parents who maybe made small mistake, which are unevoidable, wake up one day wtih their babies taken away, which is the worst case scenario.

PS: excuse my english, shich i'm sure is far from perfect, but it's my second, even third language :)

Answer 3

odd question - what'd you get your children taken away or something?

Answer 4

NO

Answer 5

I don't think the government-run groups that step in and try to monitor how kids are raised know enough.  I do think that there are quite a few parents out there who could use a class or two in parenting (even me, we all could).  There are kids in bad situations--parents who are druggies, parents who truly abuse and neglect them, etc., but most parents are doing the best they know how.  If all they know is corporal punishment, then they need to be educated.  I don't think the government is right in stepping in and removing children from loving homes even though the system of discipline may be in question.  I think the parents need to be re-trained.  I have met people who have lost their kids to social services for the dumbest of reasons.  My brother was threatened to be investigated because his tomboy daughter went to the ER three times in 4 weeks for injuries (head injury, dislocated elbow, broken wrist, and something else--I can't remember).  She did all those things herself.  If you turn your back for even two minutes to use the restroom on that girl (who is now 5 and starting K this year--she was 3 when all this happened), she gets into something or tries something that usually leaves her injured or destroys personal property.  It wasn't right for them to threaten that just because she had several injuries in a row.  My brother and his wife don't even spank.  Yet they were being accused of being child abusers by someone who had no idea of the personality of the child or the parents.

That's my opinion.  I think the government needs to stop trying to control our personal lives.  We claim to live in a free land, but who's really free?

Answer 6

No way! Kids need the love from their parents and also the discipline...I don't the government is gonna give the kids the genuine love they need from their real parents.

Answer 7

Well they have taken the healthy fear of parents away(discipline),k the fear of God (love, respect, caring, sympathy, empathy and others) and with that the answer has been kill parents, kill others, so I don't think  anyone gives a darn.  But blaming the so-called government is not the answer because  the government is you. ( Of the people, by the people and for the people). Be careful who you elect.  If they are not doing the right thing take the steps to get rid of them instead of just blaming the government because you, I, we, are the government.

Answer 8

Hands down, no. If I am beating my children or making them fear for their well-being or in some way putting crazy ideas in their heads that will make them harmful to themselves or others sure, step in, otherwise let me do my thing.

Answer 9

My parents became foster parents after I was a teenager so I have helped them raise a few kids that had mental illness or drug dependency in that case yes those were unfit parents.

BUT for responsible parents no.

I think its a shame how everyone fears giving their kids needed discipline because DCFS Will step in and take your kids.

I am not scared or ashamed to correct my children with spankings but i make sure its not excessive or in the incorrect spots.

Sometimes groundings work as well as punishment but not this (time out) thing where you make your kid sit for ten minutes and then they are off to do the same thing again.

I'm talking a day to the bedroom or a week with no TV,phone,radio,mp3 etc.

If we are out and my kids runs off or acts up well now they hold my hand for the rest of the day until we leave.

Never refer to disciplining your child as beating them that right there gives the state suspicion

Answer 10

Well they want to think so. At least one of the major parties does.

They have no more business doing that than they do telling me when to go to bed, what religion to be, or how often to bed my husband.

They need to butt the h**l out except in cases of extreme neglect or abuse.

Answer 11

No, that's why my husband and I decided to Home school.