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- Feb 9, 2013
I've worried for awhile about the general trend of people moving out to the suburbs to raise families with the false belief that they don't have to actually parent their kids. They get the idea that, because the suburbs have low crimes rates, there's not any serious trouble their kids can get up to if they're not paying super close attention.Could this why it seems to be mainly affluent and/or kids from broken homes who seem to fall for this? Mum and dad are so busy working and keeping up appearances, so they find Discord groomers and weirdo teachers to fill the void?
So the parents are busy working, as you note, commuting to office parks or urban areas, mostly leaving their kids to be raised by television and dumb bullshit on the internet.
Even fairly busy parents in urban areas seem to be more concerned about their kids because the threats are more immediate (gangs and drugs and whatnot), so they're overall more attentive.
It's not solely about political affiliation either. If parents want to raise their kids with a more liberal perspective on the world, there's totally a way to do that with moderation. You can raise your kids to be sensitive to social concerns, if that's important to you, without teaching them that just because a homosexual does it, it's beyond criticism.
And I don't think a lot of liberal parents are necessarily teaching that to their kids themselves. But in their absence, TV and social media is teaching them that.
That's why you're getting lifelong blue voters getting big surprises when their kids are coming back from their first semester at some dumb liberal college, telling mom and dad that they're cishet patriarchal oppressors and that this is stolen land and blah blah blah.
In the suburbs, sure, your kid is less likely to join a criminal gang, but you still need to keep an eye on them because they're going to join a gender gang instead.