Apparently, there was a study out that put motherhood as a unrespected profession or career.
Yes, being a parent is a career. think about this before you scoff and dismiss this as drivel. If you have kids, I have a 80% chance (plus or minus 10% either way) of you agreeing with me. Mainly because that 80% care for this kids and can identify with what I am about to say. I is not easy being a parent who cares about their children in today's disjointed, disfunctional, and out of touch society.I can understand that one from what we are bombarded with every day. All your exposed to in the media is about bad parents. The ones who do despicable things to their kids. You see it every day.
One thing you will never see on TV, or in the newspaper, is the amount of good parents in the world. The parents I am talking about are that middle 80%. The ones who care about their kids. The ones who try and do everything for their kids. I am not talking about the polar extremes. What I am talking about is the 20% out there on the extremes, where 10% do not care about their kids, and the opposite 10% who try and do everything for their kids.
The "I could care less" group: This 20% not only have no worries about their kids, they usually think they are an annoyance. I live around the corner from a "family" like this. Their 8 year old son is a menace to the neighborhood. He terrorizes the other kids, takes everyone's stuff, and is a foul-mouthed little turd.A good example of this one, This child's mother was all upset about him running around unsupervised when Bridget was out front. When she was asked, Bridget's response to the woman's query about "Weren't you watching him?" was as I expected. Bridget immediatly replied with "Did you ever ask me? He is not my responsibility, he is yours. Besides, I have no idea who you are." That so called parent is part of the bottom 20% of the spectrum.From experience, this is more wide spread than anyone will admit. Military families are highly susceptible to this kind of problem. Mainly because young and inexperienced parents are taken away from all the support they had in their life and placed in the middle of being responsible for children without guidance.
The "Mommy and Daddy will make it all better" group: The extremes on this end of this panorama of human parents are the ones you see on TV. These freaky people are noteworthy because they are the ones who would put out a hit on the head cheerleader because they think their daughter should have made the squad. Or the ones you see (in the states) who are screaming at the baseball umpire or their son's coach because he just struck out at bat. We had a couple of these too this year. The other team nearly had to forfeit a game because the other coach was just screaming at the players because his team was losing. Or the parents who push their kids everyday into being what the parent(s) want to be and not what the child wants to be.I know there is such a think as wanting the best thing for your child, but these people have a bad case of not knowing when to stop. They push their kids 24/7 and 365 days of the year for 'what is best for the child' and 'they have to do this to get ahead of the others'.I have seen half a dozen kids when I was in high school and even while in the military who were in this type of situation. They were wither able to fall inline with the parents plan and were the most aggressive and cut-throat people I have met, or they were on the verge of a nervious breakdown.
