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Does it really "take a village"?

joeaf1911a1joeaf1911a1 Member Posts: 2,962 ✭✭
edited June 2002 in General Discussion
Does it really take a village to raise a child?? Or just another
Clintonese family fable, like "its for the children". Seems like
after returning from WW 2 I had a couple of children within a couple
of years. No village, no city, helped raise them. Just loving and
hardworking parents. Now aint that strange? Neither has any rap
sheet and both with good jobs. Maybe the great political correct
politicians from L.A., N.Y.C., Phily, or Boston think they could
have done better. Let's ask Ted Kennedy for raising a family in
the right way. I am sure he could instruct us in the "right way"
and which "village" to use. Or maybe Rosie O. And yes, both my
children and grandchilden know which end a bullet comes out of a gun.
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  • 96harley96harley Member Posts: 3,992 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    That was a Clinton take off from some movie he must have seen about
    roots or something. The village never raised me and thank God it doesn't today. If that were true, and the libs wished they could convince us it is, we'd have a whole generation of perverts and human kind would no longer be able to reproduce.
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  • austin247austin247 Member Posts: 375 ✭
    edited November -1
    The problem with a village raising a child is that there are always plenty of village idiots.

    It takes loving, caring, affectionate parents to raise a child, plain and simple. Parents who care enough to listen to their children, spend time with them, and instill morals and values in their hearts and minds.

    The older I get, the more I realize my parents knew what they were talking about.
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  • v35v35 Member Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    One excuse after another for failing to civilize their children and few of them ring true. A person might get the impression that savagery is innate.
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  • varmit huntervarmit hunter Member Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Remember what you had with the "Village People"? They did not hang out in the village, But at the Y.M.C.A.

    The most important things, Are not things.
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Come down to the reservations out here. Every child is being raised by someone other than their parents. Come see the squalor.
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  • 96harley96harley Member Posts: 3,992 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Varmit Hunter you just may have something here. Our local YMCA has a person who doesn't know if men or women are right for them. There are others there ,not the majority, who are so light in their loafers they have to use weighted dive belts to keep their feet on the ground. Now if they have any part in raising a child that child is going to have some serious identity problems. A sign out front should read, "Take small children by the hand and don't let them out of your sight while here." I'm glad my girls are old enough to know that if some pervert male or female makes a move on them they can expect serious pain.

    Solid families raise kids. Not Walmart, YMCA, clubs, or churches. These can be beneficial but they don't replace devoted parent(s). Ideally a two parent family is best if at all possible. Village People...now there's some dandies.
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  • MercuryMercury Member Posts: 7,842 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Oh really? You didn't have ANY help from your parents, grandparents, siblings, friends, and aquaintances to raise your kids?

    You watched them 24/7 for 18 years? Never took a trip, never let them out of your site?

    Get real........

    I'm not a fan of the Clintons, but I'm tired of everyone knocking every little thing they said.

    A village helping raising a child is MUCH better than just one person........think about it.


    Merc



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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,503 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I saw a bumper sticker that read:

    Anyone that believes it takes a village to raise a child spent too much time with the Village Idiot.

    Guns only have two enemies: Rust and Liberals....
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  • S&W ManS&W Man Member Posts: 208 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The ONLY thing a village can raise is an idiot. That is toomany hands in the soup.

    The second admendment GUARANTEES the other nine and the Constitution!
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  • SUBMARINERSUBMARINER Member Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    MERC,WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS IT TAKES A FAMILY TO RAISE A CHILD.WHEN HILLARY SAID IT IT MEANT IT TAKES THE GOVERNMENT TO RAISE A CHILD.WE WOULDNT TAKE ISSUE WITH EVERYTHING THE CLINTONS SAID IF EVERYTHING THEY SAID WASNT UTTER BULLCRAP.WHAT SHE SAID WAS STRAIGHT OUT OF THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO.TAKE AWAY THE POWER OF THE PARENTS TO DISCIPLINE CHILDREN AND GIVE IT TO THE STATE SO THAT THE STATE CAN GIVE THE CHILDREN A MORE FAVORABLE VIEW OF THE STATE.....OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT,SOMEBODY HELP ME OUT WITH AN EXACT QUOTE

    SUBMARINE SAILOR,TRUCK DRIVER,RUSTY WALLACE FAN AND AS EVERYONE SO OFTEN POINTS OUT PISS POOR TYPIST e-mail:WNUNLEY@USIT.NET
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  • joeaf1911a1joeaf1911a1 Member Posts: 2,962 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    No, I am not a Clinton fan either. AND, I certainly would not like them "lookin after" my son or specially my daughter. I wish to be
    the one teaching them manners, right from wrong, and proper behavoir.
    Any vacations included them prior to their marriages. (RE: Mercury)
    And yes, The Clintons get a lot of "justifiable flack" . If we
    did some of the stupid things Bill did, and got away with, we would
    get the same "flak" and much worse. Thank you but I can live without
    a village doing the raising of MY children. Too many "villagers" have
    too many different ideas of right and wrong in this politicaly
    correct liberal society. If we did the raising wrong, then shame on
    us, only. No one else is to blame.
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  • ghost614ghost614 Member Posts: 129 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    depends on the village i suppose.
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