Nurture v. Nature (or Pummel v. Not-Pummel)

This editorial, of sorts, will be dedicated to the issue of parenting in today's society, introduced a little by my premiere writing piece, (You must be THIS tall to read this post).

Parenting, as we have it today, is a terrible system. Yeah, a lot of good kids come out of it, but so do a lot of rapists and serial killers and fans of the show Two and a Half Men. A lot of this has to do with parents actually parenting their kids.

I know this is going to sound a little odd to most of you. We grew up in a society where parents raised the kids, end of story. But why? How is their competency tested? By the actual acts of conception and childbirth, which over 100 billion others have done before them?

If not taking every child to a special facility to be raised by trained specialists, at least do some regulation of the parents. Do you know how many child molesters, kid-beaters, and rapists there are raising kid in their households? If there is only only one, that is one too many.

This also brings up the infamous topic of nurture vs. nature. This basically asks whether children should be raised roughly, learning the skills they need to survive, or gently easing them into society, making for a less unpleasant childhood.

Right now, we are living in a nurture society. A place where if a kid fails, it is okay, and (s)he'll just try better next time. But this isn't adequately preparing kids for adulthood, when they will fail and it won't be okay.

How it used to be was nature, and it worked pretty well. The self-destructive morons went and self-destructed themselves, and we were left with all of the productive smarties. This current system is leading to overpopulation, children never truly becoming adults, and TMZ. Do we really want any of that?

Thanks for reading and considering,
-J. Valett