Short Story Where Have All The Parents Gone
Where have all the parents gone?
It is 3am in the morning when a police officer spots a group of juveniles in a public park. The police officer and his partner approach the juveniles and find that they have been drinking. When the officers begin to question the fifteen year old, he replies with obscenities and spits at them. Rather then taking the juveniles down to the station, the officer decides to phone the juvenile's parents to make them aware of where they are and what they are doing. To the officer's surprise when the mother of the juvenile answers the phone, her reply is, "Oh, they're just out having fun and I have to work tomorrow, Can't you just drive them home?" What is most disturbing about this story is that this is a common event; this story is based on an actual event as evidenced by netcops.com. Why are today's children not being taught basic manners, and the difference between right and wrong? Where have all the parents gone? In order to answer these questions it is necessary to explore the history of the American Family.
In the 1950's there were established norms for the way people lived and behaved towards one another. To deviate from the norms would result …show more content…
With the acceptance of cohabitation came the increase in unwed mothers and an increase in single family homes. According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census of 1961, in 1960, 87.5 percent of all families were married couple families while 10.0 percent were female-headed. Whereas the Census of 1990 indicates that by 1990 married couple families accounted for 79.2 percent of all families (10.5 percent decline from 1970) and 16.5 percent of all families were female-headed. Although women today are less dependent on a man's income to support themselves and their family, with the increased costs of child care and time spent at work little time is left to teach basic morals and values to today's
It is 3am in the morning when a police officer spots a group of juveniles in a public park. The police officer and his partner approach the juveniles and find that they have been drinking. When the officers begin to question the fifteen year old, he replies with obscenities and spits at them. Rather then taking the juveniles down to the station, the officer decides to phone the juvenile's parents to make them aware of where they are and what they are doing. To the officer's surprise when the mother of the juvenile answers the phone, her reply is, "Oh, they're just out having fun and I have to work tomorrow, Can't you just drive them home?" What is most disturbing about this story is that this is a common event; this story is based on an actual event as evidenced by netcops.com. Why are today's children not being taught basic manners, and the difference between right and wrong? Where have all the parents gone? In order to answer these questions it is necessary to explore the history of the American Family.
In the 1950's there were established norms for the way people lived and behaved towards one another. To deviate from the norms would result …show more content…
With the acceptance of cohabitation came the increase in unwed mothers and an increase in single family homes. According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census of 1961, in 1960, 87.5 percent of all families were married couple families while 10.0 percent were female-headed. Whereas the Census of 1990 indicates that by 1990 married couple families accounted for 79.2 percent of all families (10.5 percent decline from 1970) and 16.5 percent of all families were female-headed. Although women today are less dependent on a man's income to support themselves and their family, with the increased costs of child care and time spent at work little time is left to teach basic morals and values to today's