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Title: America's Youth 'Dependency Dilemma' Is A Political Problem, Not Just A Family One
Source: cnsnews
URL Source: http://cnsnews.com/blog/bill-hobbs/ ... al-problem-not-just-family-one
Published: Mar 19, 2012
Author: Bill Hobbs
Post Date: 2012-03-19 06:46:42 by CZ82
Keywords: None
Views: 6551
Comments: 24

America's Youth 'Dependency Dilemma' Is A Political Problem, Not Just A Family One

By Bill Hobbs

March 16, 2012

“Researchers at UCLA are studying the habits of middle-class families,” reports the Wall Street Journal today, “asking intriguing questions like why are American kids so helpless and dependent?”

The story, “A Field Guide to the Middle-Class U.S. Family," reports on the work of anthropologist Elinor Ochs and her colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles, who have studied family life as far away as Samoa and the Peruvian Amazon region, but more recently have been studying the American middle class and asking questions like this one: Why do American children depend on their parents to do things for them that they are capable of doing for themselves?

Among the findings: The families had very a child-centered focus, which may help explain the "dependency dilemma" seen among American middle-class families, says Dr. Ochs. Parents intend to develop their children's independence, yet raise them to be relatively dependent, even when the kids have the skills to act on their own, she says. How kids develop moral responsibility is an area of focus for the researchers. Dr. Ochs, who began her career in far-off regions of the world studying the concept of "baby talk," noticed that American children seemed relatively helpless compared with those in other cultures she and colleagues had observed.

In those cultures, young children were expected to contribute substantially to the community, says Dr. Ochs. Children in Samoa serve food to their elders, waiting patiently in front of them before they eat, as shown in one video snippet. Another video clip shows a girl around 5 years of age in Peru's Amazon region climbing a tall tree to harvest papaya, and helping haul logs thicker than her leg to stoke a fire.

By contrast, the U.S. videos showed Los Angeles parents focusing more on the children, using simplified talk with them, doing most of the housework and intervening quickly when the kids had trouble completing a task. In 22 of 30 families, children frequently ignored or resisted appeals to help, according to a study published in the journal Ethos in 2009. In the remaining eight families, the children weren't asked to do much. It isn't that the kids were unable to do the tasks or that their parents didn't express a need for help, say the researchers. Rather, the studied children didn't seem to view it as their routine responsibility to contribute, the researchers say.

Reading through the story, you may recognize these children. Or, rather, you may recognize their self-centered attitudes, their laziness and their insistence that others take care of them in others around you.

You have seen it from people at your local Occupy encampment, sitting in a tent, demanding the “1 percent” give them what they want, refusing to take responsibility for their own lives.

You have seen it from people who stupidly wracked up six-figure student loan debts for degrees that are near-worthless in the job market, and now want government to forgive their loans.

You have seen it recently on the national news, when a 30-year-old law student at a school whose graduates make, on average, $160,000 a year in their first job after law school, demanded Congress make someone else pay for her birth control.

You are seeing it now from the Democratic Party, which once was lead by a President who said, “Ask not what your country can do for you, Ask what you can do for your country,” but which now is lead by a President who talks endlessly about making others pay more in order to fund more bailouts and subsidies for his constituent groups and favored supporters.

The “dependency dilemma” is not just a middle-class American family problem. It's America's political problem, too.

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#1. To: CZ82 (#0)

You have seen it recently on the national news, when a 30-year-old law student at a school whose graduates make, on average, $160,000 a year in their first job after law school, demanded Congress make someone else pay for her birth control.

Students (or their parents) are required by the university to have and pay for health insurance. Do you think students have the right to lobby for what they want and need in a product they are required to purchase?

Perhaps freedom loving "real" conservatives recognize only the rights of the controlling authority, in this case the university, to make rules which the lessor folk must follow without question.

For all students, good health is essential to achieving educational goals. Because maintaining good health requires access to health care when you need it, Georgetown University requires the students described below to have health insurance.

* Most students who are charged Georgetown University tuition and registered in resident thesis research or registered for nine or more credit hours in a GU degree program (eight or more credit hours if a law or graduate student) are eligible and required to enroll in the most comprehensive student injury and sickness plan offered through the University, unless their other insurance coverage meets specific University requirements.

A charge for this Premier Plan is placed on eligible students' accounts, per their registration status referenced above, once per Academic Year.

http://studentaffairs.georgetown.edu/insurance/

lucysmom  posted on  2012-03-20   11:10:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: lucysmom (#1)

Students (or their parents) are required by the university to have and pay for health insurance. Do you think students have the right to lobby for what they want and need in a product they are required to purchase?

When I was in college I was still covered under my parents' hospital specific health care plan, but it didn't matter to them. I still had to buy their plan as they had their own hospital on campus.

mininggold  posted on  2012-03-20   11:23:49 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: mininggold (#2)

I still had to buy their plan as they had their own hospital on campus.

Single payer would put an end to that.

lucysmom  posted on  2012-03-20   11:28:03 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: lucysmom (#3)

Single payer would put an end to that.

Ah yes the pick and choose who and what we want to treat plan.....

The plan where some political hack chooses who the winners and losers are... Kinda like the current income tax system!!

CZ82  posted on  2012-03-20   19:12:34 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: CZ82 (#4)

The plan where some political hack chooses who the winners and losers are...

My chronically ill mother had those fears before Medicare became law.

lucysmom  posted on  2012-03-20   19:19:49 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#6. To: lucysmom (#5)

The plan where some political hack chooses who the winners and losers are...

My chronically ill mother had those fears before Medicare became law.

So what happens when the money runs out??????

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