Critics slam MSNBC host’s claim that kids belong to community, not parents

[Team Sergeant]

MSNBC needs to trade names with CNN so we can call them what they are, Communist News Network..... Well said Comrade Melissa Harris-Perry.
It's hard for me to believe people actually watch that channel. But then again some here actually read the NYT's.

Critics slam MSNBC host’s claim that kids belong to community, not parents
By Hollie McKay

Published April 09, 2013

FoxNews.com
LOS ANGELES – Parents and media critics were aghast after a host for MSNBC called for collective care of a community's children instead of parents taking care of their kids themselves.

MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry recorded a commercial for the network in which she stated that children do not belong to their parents, but are instead the responsibility of the members of their community.

“We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had kind of a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children,” she says in a spot for the network’s “Lean Forward” campaign. “So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.”

Harris-Perry’s views ignited a firestorm of anger and disbelief.


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[MR2]

Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

But then again some here actually read the NYT's.

Mostly birds I suspect...

[Lan]

I'll hand my kids over to the 'community' as soon as I hand my guns over to it.

My father in law watches MSNBC all day long so the conversations we have at family events are interesting to put it nicely.

[Dusty]

That women looks half Klingon. Is that how Klingons raise their young?

[ddoering]

Where do I drop them off at?

[PRB]

Originally Posted by Dusty

That women looks half Klingon. Is that how Klingons raise their young?

Lol, yeah...weird look. High maint with tude.

[Team Sergeant]

It has everything to do with the Progressives (socialists) not taking "personal responsibility" for their actions.

The Teleprompter Reader of the United States of America was brought up this way was he not?

Benghazi anyone?

[Stiletto11]

That's because half of them don't know who their daddy is. Daddy is replaced by the gobment who hands out all the goodies. I teach school in the inner city and kids talk about having to get pregnant to get into Section 8 housing among other appalling issues.

[Stargazer]

Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

The Teleprompter Reader of the United States of America was brought up this way was he not?

I believe that has a great deal to do with how he and his ilk think. He credits many for what he achieved.. and may have had interesting parents but not sure about stability.

The pressure seems to be building...

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by DocIllinois

Its a cycle that continues, isn't it?

The one simple social rule that we all live by: people have needs and thus assign value to the people who meet them.

Living in Section 8 housing, leeching off the taxpayer's dollar, providing a horrible environment for childraising, being impulsive - I doubt society needs these things from any of it's citizens.

Yet these individuals are tolerated, generation after generation, polluting a society that should be dedicated to supporting the lessons instilled by parents who give a damn.

Good stuff.

Rhetorically, which political party facilitated these circumstances?

[afchic]

Originally Posted by DocIllinois

Its a cycle that continues, isn't it?

The one simple social rule that we all live by: people have needs and thus assign value to the people who meet them.

Living in Section 8 housing, leeching off the taxpayer's dollar, providing a horrible environment for childraising, being impulsive - I doubt society needs these things from any of it's citizens.

Yet these individuals are tolerated, generation after generation, polluting a society that should be dedicated to supporting the lessons instilled by parents who give a damn.

And how do we help break this cycle? Are you not a product of your parent's parenting? Many of us here were lucky enough to grow up in a two parent family, and learned how to become responsible adults. Many, like me, had to learn the hard way, many times the VERY hard way. But I always had my parents there to catch me when I fell.

So are these children not just as much a product of their parent or parents parenting? It breaks my heart that little pre-teen girls think the only way they can survive in this life is by getting pregnant.

I have made a vow that when I move back to St Louis, I am not only going to become more involved in the youth group at my church, but become more involved in volunteering in East St Louis. I can not imagine not having a role model to look up to growing up, but that is the life many of these kids face. They don't know any better, because they have never been SHOWN any better. And those of us that complain about this generation after generation bear some of the guilt if we just shake our head an walk away, instead of actually DOING something.

[echoes]

Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

It has everything to do with the Progressives (socialists) not taking "personal responsibility" for their actions.

The Teleprompter Reader of the United States of America was brought up this way was he not?

Benghazi anyone?

AND THAT IS THE TRUTH, SIR!

Anyone want to counter?

Holly

[SF18C]

All of those LEAN FORWARD commercial spots suck, I am surprised it was this one that ticked everybody off…I guess they never seen the one about govt is need to solve all our problems or without govt there is no health care system.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIfoLtR-xdo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p3_k7IQx50

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3fJ5pJwtMU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6ECB20McEc

And my favorite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPklYj7gYLo

[Stargazer]

Originally Posted by DocIllinois

Its a cycle that continues, isn't it?

The one simple social rule that we all live by: people have needs and thus assign value to the people who meet them.

Living in Section 8 housing, leeching off the taxpayer's dollar, providing a horrible environment for childraising, being impulsive - I doubt society needs these things from any of it's citizens.

Yet these individuals are tolerated, generation after generation, polluting a society that should be dedicated to supporting the lessons instilled by parents who give a damn.

In this spirit, I find this quote by Margaret Thatcher to be apropos.

“I think we’ve been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it’s the government’s job to cope with it. ‘I have a problem, I’ll get a grant.’ ‘I’m homeless, the government must house me.’ They’re casting their problem on society. And you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It’s our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There’s no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.” — Margaret Thatcher,

[Sdiver]

I don't see why everyone is getting all crazy and "up in arms" over this statement?

We were told awhile ago that, "It takes a village to raise a child."

Only difference between the two statements is, the one who said the above statement, the populace took pity on her due to her husbands infidelity and agreed with her.