I spend way too much time in dependency court to believe for one minute, at least in the judicial district I live in, that parents are being unduly charged criminally. It may happen but I bet the instances are extremely rare. Here everything must be investigated but the parents I see in dependency court, deserve to be there.

If there were a simple fix to the problem, somebody would have found it by now.

While some may not care for the book's author, I do buy into the "it takes a village to raise a child" theory. I'm the momma on my block who not only praises and disciplines her own kids but will not hesitate to treat any other neighborhood kids with the same expectations and respect as I do my own. It's a complacency problem, possibly, *shrugs* lowered expectations mayhaps.

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