The troubling reality of most social problems is that they can only be fixed anecdotally. It takes a guy like my dad to decide that he’s not going to be like everyone else in his family, and then actually walking the walk. Day-in, day-out, for as long as it took to send three kids off into the world under conditions that my mom found acceptable enough to not divorce his ass.
You can’t vote your way into a good mom or dad. That takes people deciding to do the job and giving it all that they have.
Does struggle cause bad parenting by itself? Everyone struggles. If you aren’t struggling in your teens or twenties in modern America, you’re missing out on valuable learning opportunities. And guess what, you’ve got more struggle ahead after your twenties. Doesn’t matter how much money you’ve got in the bank. Unless you’re rich, I suppose, then congratulations on being rich. I hope you find being rich enjoyable and I encourage you to find a way to reproduce responsibly.
All kinds of things lead to inter-generational bad parenting. Rich people can be horrible parents just the same as poor people, it’s just a numbers game and an economic consequences game. You’re right about domestic violence statistics too. Drug abuse, alcoholism, sexual abuse, other physical abuse, child neglect and broader forms of violence and theft are all plagues that @idaho correctly labeled as a particularly insidious tax on the poor.
Keeping the thread somewhat on-track, defunding the police is yet another Democrat policy that happens to coincide with terrible outcomes for the people who’ve been living under long-term Democrat governance in some of our largest cities.
Those dastardly Republicans keep thwarting the Democrats promises to their voters! They’ve been pulling it off for almost 100 years in Chicago, where Indiana conservatives are presently to blame for Chicago violence.
Why? Because they don’t have Chicago gun control laws. This is now a decades-old argument.
Generally a pre-requisite for citizenship overseas is to have some sort of qualification that grants entrance into another country through a means of employment
The nice thing about America is the level of sociocultural diversity present. Rules/regulations and societal outlook can differ dramatically from state to state. Unlike Australia where the entire country is a batshit, backwards nanny state at the moment…
No, it probably isn’t, it takes a little work and preparation. It is much easier to lean back and spew hate for America, but, you are too weak and lazy to face “struggle”. I always found it funny that the people who condemn and hate America so forcibly, are always the ones who never leave.
You could start out by applying for a contracting job in the United Arab Emirates. They import 90 % of their workforce. When you arrive, they take your passport and depending on job, you will get it back in 3 to 5 years. The Philippine national economy is exporting workers. So, you hate America, go for it. Just a little work and you will be shed of all your stressful hate.
Jurisdictions seemingly abandon law and order, leading criminals to feel emboldened. The new dynamic of so-called progressive prosecutors across our nation apparently continue to choose criminal safety over public safety. In Baltimore, shoplifting and drug-possession are no longer crimes. St. Louis is not prosecuting looting and rioting, Portland is doing the same and is also not prosecuting trespassing, Philadelphia won’t prosecute looting, rioting or prostitution and San Francisco and Chicago, where record shootings are occurring, has created an “open market” on businesses by not prosecuting thefts under $1,000 and indecent exposure offenses.
Apparently to be a proper citizen within the UAE is akin to being born into royalty. I’d never want to live there, particularly as a Jew… But they treat their citizens with a very nice standard of living
But… UAE… Not for me
My end goal is to get out of Aus. At the moment I have two options, Isreal or New Zealand. Further down the line when I have the credentials my intention is to leave.
At the moment most Australian’s can’t even leave their STATE!
But yea… If you want change, advocate for it. Actions speak louder than words. Volunteer for organisations promoting activism/help for the poor etc.
We know that a lack of a father in a household is the main indicator of a child’s future success.
They are probably at a higher risk of all kinds of violence. Another thing to consider is that wealthier people are better at hiding what goes on in their homes.
I actually don’t know who I’d vote for now in America
I’m deeply divided… I can’t support the pro Palestinian sentiment the majority of democrats seem to harbour, at the same time I can’t support climate change denial, anti-vaxxers, defunding the police, laws against abortion/against criminal justice reform, extensive tightening or loosening of gun control…
There are too many policies stemming from both sides of the paradigm that I dislike. Perhaps I’d vote independent or spoil my vote/abstain.
That doesn’t make it a democrat policy. Trump said he would replace Obamacare with something better. Does that make government healthcare a republican policy? Less restrictive gun control is a republican policy yet, Giuliani was a republican and NYC had the toughest gun laws in the US when he was mayor. NYC even sued gun manufacturers under his admin. Christie didn’t do gun owners any favors when he was gov of NJ.
It’s because many Americans are single issue voters. As long as they think they are getting the one thing they want, they ignore the rest. The crazy part is that often, the one thing they want, even if they get it, won’t change their lives for the better.
You are engaging in nearly-meaningless semantic quibbling. Defunding the police is a policy being advanced exclusively by Democrats. This is a fact that’s worth pointing out, and the thread originator did exactly that. Correctly.
Of course not every Democrat supports this insane notion, because not every Democrat is profoundly stupid or sociopathic. President Biden may not come out and say he supports it explicitly, but he’s more than glad to feed the over-arching narrative of white supremacist police, as was Obama. He’s certainly not stepping up to reign in his own party’s sociopathic and destructive policies presently causing much harm in the world.
Now that we’ve cleared your semantic dispute up, can we get back to pointing out how we have one and only one party in the USA right now who is advancing this type of destructive rhetoric and policy?
That also doesn’t mean there aren’t stupid or sociopathic Republicans, but none of them are getting their stupid and sociopathic policies implemented anywhere in the USA.