From free public school breakfasts and lunches, to expecting the public school and other agencies of the public sector to provide after school and recreational activities for their sons and daughters, parents in the United States have increasingly expected the schools and other entities to become their children’s caregiver provided by tax payer expense. Even those politically ardent conservatives, who advocate limited government, still in times of national disasters and in terms of providing public education, have an expectation that the local and state governments fulfill exclusively and meet all scholastic and extra-curricular related activities.
This has coincided with the increasing number of single parent households and two parents households where both parents hold full-time jobs. In many instances, parents either through lack of time or lack of effort, are not spending time with their children reviewing homework or supplementing their children’s schoolwork and education in school. In addition, the television and the computer have become increasingly relied upon to keep children occupied or busy serve as a babysitter. On a related note, parents are too preoccupied being their children’s best friends or attempting to stay “cool,” with their kids, and, consequently, not enough discipline is being applied in many American households.
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