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The moral crisis begins at home...
I agree with Lady of Pearl.
My thinking:
1) anyone with children needs to get BET and MTV off of their cable (even if you don't let them watch it, they're sneaking it in)
2) restrict TV watching in the home
3) kick their kids off the Internet unless they are sitting next to them (all kids say they're doing their homework online, but then when they disappear with some man they met online, you find out what the real deal is)
4) turn off the radio... when parents are in the car with their kids, why do I hear so many playing rap and R&B with lyrics that I assume they wouldn't want their children to repeat?
5) talk about sexual responsibility *AND* consequences from an early age so the first time children hear about it isn't from their classmates or their little boyfriends/girlfriends, it's from their parents.
Fractured families, absent fathers, whirlwinds of stand-in daddies, and poor choices have also not helped our young women learn self-pride and independence, or our young men to learn responsibility and respect of women.
Since society won't do it for us, we need to individually and familially find the strength to make a moral stand so that our children grow up with a strong sense of values. It's not impossible, but maybe I'm too idealistic.
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