Esmeralda
Diamond Member
Are you saying a parent doesn't teach their values too their children?
A democrat father AND A UNION MEMBER
As far as parents teaching children values: It depends on individual situations. I know and have known many people who did not accept wholesale every belief their parents tried to pass on to them. IMO anyone who grows up and says the way they think and behave is entirely do to the way they were brought up, this person is no individual with an independent mind--ironically just the opposite of what a true republican, American rugged indivdualist is supposed to be. My parents made available to me certain values, some of which I accepted and many of which I didn't. They were racists, for one thing, and I am completely the opposite. Later in life they changed their values in that area, fortunately. Racism is an ugly thing. They were Christians, a belief I accepted until I was an adolescent and began really being my own person. I learned to be an honest, decent, law abiding citizen from them. But a lot of things, besides those which I mentioned, a lot of their ideas I have rejected and found my own system of values, ethics and beliefs. This is true for many, many people who do not aspire to become clones of their parents.
As far as your other point: it simple makes no difference. I made my point quite clearly: just because one grew up in the home of a democrat, that does not make one a democrat. It's ludicrous to try to assert that anyone is a democrat or a liberal simply because their parents were/are.
Don't give any excuses if a parent doesn't teach their children their values they are worthless pieces of shit.
LOL So a parent's job is to create clones of themselves in every way? To exert mind control over them? To brainwash their kids so the kids have no mind of their own? To block any independent thinking or rugged indivdualism? How very anti-American. Hopefully your parents are better than you and wouldn't stoop to calling other parents who don't totally brainwash their kids as "worthless pieces of shit." Pretty sad to think of your mother expressing such a thought in such a way.