+++++++++++++++++++++++

What is wrong with our nation that over 75% of our nation’s young adults born between 1985 and 1990 appear to be sloppy, incompetent fools?  Talk about NEGLECT and bad parenting!!!  How and why did we let things get THIS BAD?

+++++++++++++++++++++++

“Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009 the generals and admirals of Mission: Readiness, along with US Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, released a new report that details the fact that 75% of young Americans are unable to serve their country because they have either failed to graduate high school, engaged in criminal activity, or are physically or mentally unfit.”

For state-by-state data, the press release and report, go to the press conference page.  You will find here that even this 75% statistic is considered to be too LOW!

This link goes to the excellent full report, well worth the reading.  Be sure to look for more details about the data collection for this study in this complete report HERE, which includes a full presentation about the need for early childhood development education and parent coaching, as well as the following statement:

“….state and federal governments together are paying over $20 billion a year to identify and care for the victims of abuse or neglect in America….Individual children who grow up to drop out of school, abuse drugs and become career criminals cost society, on average, over 2.5 million dollars each.”

++++

It is too bad that this study did not collect child abuse information, similar to that collected by the Center for Disease Control in their recent studies, along with the other statistics so that we could clearly determine patterns of Trauma Altered Development in correlation with the problems over 75% of our nation’s young adults are now demonstrating.

+++++++++++++++++++++++

I must be living in a bubble.  I am stunned and shocked by the findings of this report that a minimum of “75% of young Americans are unable to serve their country.”  Is our great nation already experiencing this drastic of a decline in our standards and quality of life that this 75% figure measuring a disaster of fitness among the masses of our nation’s youth seems to bother so few?  Yes.  It seems obvious that this is true.

What is wrong with the parents of these children?  What are they doing?  It seems obvious to me what they are NOT doing – paying attention and providing anything like a high quality of life for their children that prepares them for a high quality life in adulthood.

These statistics reflect serious neglect and negligence, at a minimum.  I do not believe the ‘problem’ lies within the schools.  The responsibility of raising healthy and competent children lies with the parents that bring them into the world.  Is this the best that our nation’s parents can do?  Do we have nearly an entire nation of unfit parents?  We must, because evidently we have nearly an entire nation of completely unfit young adults.

If 75% of our nations young adults are this unhealthy and unprepared for competent adulthood, how in the universe are they prepared to provide healthy parenting to any children they may bring into the world?

Something is WRONG here – and I mean right HERE – in this once-was-a-proud-strong nation called America!  Are we destroying our own nation from the inside?

Have we willingly and knowingly turned ourselves into an uneducated, ignorant, lazy, unhealthy, sloppy, placid, valueless drug using nation of misfits, criminals and fools?

I need to revise my entire mental concept of ORDINARY!!  If being useless to oneself, one’s offspring, one’s nation and one’s global civilization is the accepted standard of ordinary in our nation, I want no part of ordinary!!  Or is it the other way around so that most parents have suffered enough traumas that they had no chance at ordinary in the first place?

The inequity in the distribution of fitness versus lack of fitness among our youth is staggering!  This massive group of pathetic youth is entering the age when they will be running our country and making decisions that will impact the future of our globe.  Or, are we content to let the less than 25% of our population run our entire nation while the rest of our population further deteriorate into nothing more than complete social parasites?

Are the non-traumatized, securely attached, advantaged people having fewer (if any) children while the traumatized, insecurely attached and disadvantaged are having more?  Are we seeing the consequences of a generation of daycare and latchkey children whose mother’s abandoned the home for the public work place?

There is no amount of money on this globe that our government could possibly throw into our ‘educational system’ to resolve this massive of a problem.  The government is not any more responsible for raising our nation’s children than our school systems are.

Parents HAVE to more positively participate in the PARENTING of their children.

We have obviously reached this dismal and appalling point in our national decline because far more than the majority of the parents of our nations either do not give a damn or are completely unfit themselves!

+++++++++++++++++++++++

Please feel free to comment directly at the end of this post or on

+++++++

Your Page – Readers’ Responses

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++