raising children ?!

The sad truth about raising children these days is that many parents are so busy with their work lives that most children become 'latch-key kids'. These children are exposed to all the dangers of the streets and the only thing that keeps them company at home is the television. If anyone has turned on a television recently, you have seen that many of the shows, even chilrend's show, have violence. How do we expect to raise children to be kind and loving and compassionate if they were explosed to so much evil and corruption? And then we wonder why the U.S. is 18th in the world in students attending colleges and making careers for themselves. It's terrible that parents are so busy that they cannot even take the time out to entertain or even talk to their children and keep these bad things away from them. If for example, a child grows up watching horror movies with killing and gore and violence, that is the child that would quite possibly hurt another child because he saw it on televsion and so he velieves it is the correct way. In a newpaper article I read a few years ago, a little boy was at the beach with his family and he wanted to be with SpongeBob Square Pants and he decided to run into the water and look for him. Tragically, that little boy drowned and lost his life. I am just trying to show how even the shows that we feel are innocent and perfect for children to watch can quite possibly be one of the worst things you can expose them to. If you want to occupy your children with television go out and buy a Disney movie, not the horror moves and television shows that could corrupt their young minds.