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Originally Posted by Minte
No doubt that is some of the problem. It started years ago, when bleeding hearts started to label children. How many kids today are on some sort of medication for some *condition*. I think the biggest problem is that the pressure on parents today to create that perfect human in their likeness is unreasonable. If your child doesn't turn out to be a lawyer or a doctor or at least pulling down a 6 figure income,it's because the parent was lousy or the child has OCD or some other condition of the month. Then it was only natural to *treat* the child with some drug. At the end of the day, everyone can't be the chief. There has to be some indians too.
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Thank you for summing up the reason why it is important to create a framework for our society that keeps all of the 'Indians' safe, secure and out of poverty. When the playing field is so tilted that any salary of less than 250K per year falls short of being able to have a few kids with one parent who stays at home with them and a house that isn't a disaster - parents live in terror that their offspring will fall short of that mark.
Working hard at a job 9-5 with a spouse who stays home and two or three kids you raise in some moderate degree of comfort is a dream beyond reach for way too many people - including many who now earn a 'good living' or even some families that have both parents working overtime.
True single payer basic healthcare, investment in early childhood education, an elderly care system that does not bankrupt and 'cash out' anyone's life savings during their limelight years - those kinds of things create a structure that allows people who work hard but lack the aptitude to make millions, to still enjoy life and gives their children a chance to be even more prosperous. It's why those things are so important and why funding them is so cheap compared to the alternative of more jails, less security and far more squandered potential.