I think parents should be able to teach their kids what their faith says, what science says.
My eldest kids had a very tough time when they lost their mum and I don't want them to lose their dad.
Likewise, our old playroom – the kids are grown up now and hardly anyone goes in there.
So next time you hear someone mouthing off about bloody immigrants, ask how many kids they have, how old they were when they had them and whether or not they expect those children to look after them when they get seriously old.
A healthy "attention span" becomes just another ineffable quality to remember having, to believe you've lost, to worry about your kids lacking, to blame the culture for destroying.
"The data show that not only is there declining trust in government, there is declining trust in other people"; although it wasn't exclusive to them, this shift was "concentrated among these poor kids, the kids who have been left out," Putnam said.
There was a cohort of "lost kids we see in our data, who have no opportunity for economic mobility"; what's more, "those kids know".
"We do retain some traditional parts of high school; kids still need to earn credit and study certain topics but we go about studying them a little differently," she explains.
The kids won't get it, or someone will find it offensive.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 2.03pm AEST05:03 Bill Shorten asks Abbott: A single income family on $65,000 with two kids will be $6000 worse off due to budget measures, including the family tax benefit B. Abbott says it is a result of Labor's debt and deficit.
