29-05-2022, 03:28 PM
Nobody is saying we shouldn't 'own it'. It would be pointless to pretend that we haven't got an appalling record when it comes to child murder.
The countries with the highest rate of child murders are all in south America.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/10-c...ca-n766731
But our statistics are high.
https://www.childmatters.org.nz/insights/nz-statistics/
It might not be such a bad idea to have compulsory parenting classes in schools (taught by parents with some teaching experience) to include the basics of parenting, cooking, budgeting & gardening.
And we could do worse than to also teach empathy in every school; it won't solve the whole problem but it would certainly help.
The countries with the highest rate of child murders are all in south America.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/10-c...ca-n766731
But our statistics are high.
https://www.childmatters.org.nz/insights/nz-statistics/
It might not be such a bad idea to have compulsory parenting classes in schools (taught by parents with some teaching experience) to include the basics of parenting, cooking, budgeting & gardening.
And we could do worse than to also teach empathy in every school; it won't solve the whole problem but it would certainly help.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)