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I don’t necessarily believe that the past is better than the present in its entirety. I don’t know how we can become more enlightened and at the same time more in the dark.
In my grandmother’s day a man that had a child that he didn’t take care of faced repercussions even at his job. People were expected to behave a certain way even when they weren’t on the clock. If they did something after work that shamed the company they could/would be immediately fired. Now we have lawsuits for wrongful termination when a person is fired for calling in too many times. I UNDERSTAND why the laws were passed, but the creeps rode the coattails of legitimate complaints and somewhere we lost common sense.
Somewhere along the way, parents quit teach values and morals and made excuses for their child’s behavior. And children quit caring how they were viewed in the public eye.
When we moved to Japan some 23 years ago, I was absolutely shocked to see vending machines with alcohol in them on street corners as common as soda machines. I asked our guide what prevented the teens from just helping themselves. He responded “honor, they would never dream of shaming their parents in that way.” As a society, I think we’ve lost our honor.
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I've been married for 24 years and have four wonderful children.
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