Originally Posted by mdaniels4
I agree with the vast majority of the post here re: kids and the educational system etc. In most cases, I believe it is the parents who are the most impacting on this whole scenario. We're generally talking about parents of school age children, not the young adults.
I thought this started out about young adults posting on the forum, not school age kids

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My daughter was raise right, done very well in school and is book smart as they get. I know for a fact she was not into drinking or drugs, she was totally against either and made it very vocal that anybody that was into either were total looser's. She was a fairly good kid, the only problems she had was telling the truth, but was a pretty responsable kid. The real problems didn't start until between 19 or 20 when we no longer had any control over her. When my wife & I would try to talk to her about the direction she was going, she would just tell us she was an adult and for us to mind our own business. She would tell us that what she does would not have any effect on my us and the famous words "I made my bed & I will lie in it". You would not believe how much she has aged my wife & I since the age of 20, nor the money she has cost us. We would only see her if she needed money, but we pretty well quit giving her money at the age of 22. Then she wound up pregnant at 23, then we had no choice but to support her because the farther was in the middle of a divorse and went back to his wife. The same thing happened to her at 25, with a different guy. She hardly recieves support from either of the farthers and they have nothing to do with the kids nor her. So we have no choice but to support her now, she does have a CNA license she works for a while then quit's with some dumb reason, but most likely was fired. I kid you not she has had between 15 & 20 job's since the age of 20, she has been out of work for about 6 months now, but I'm told by her mother that she is suppose to start a job this week. Her biggest problems are telling the truth, not having respect for anything or anybody and placing blame on anybody but herself if something does not go her way.