On the one hand I do disagree with some of the hyperbole they use but I'm not a fan of council-estate single mothers who don't bother taking precautions and then don't seem too interested in working. I just realise that these are a smaller proportion than the likes of the Mail make out.
The percentage is very small. Very small indeed but DM likes to strikes fear into people whether it is immigration, abortion or benefits.
Almost everyday there is some sort of big headline with attempts at fearmongering in the text.
That is the daily mail's bread and butter.
I believe in reviving the older more corporate forms of the family, give the parents or more properly the elders a lot more power I say until well after. In Republican Rome you could be 40 but if the Paterfamilias was still alive or it wasn't you then you still had to bow to his authority in some things. Make a lot of property family property and give the family a lot more functions and then see if teenagers would be as quick to go off the rails.
You'd be very surprised but that is highly similar to how Somalis do business.
I defer to my elders not only my parents.
And in Somaliland, we have a clan like system in which family have alot of say and we own alot of land but it is a family shared ownage and it is passed down from parent to child if they take the responsibilities of the field and suceed. They can reap the rewards and benefits that come with it
In the west children and teenagers are so damn useless. What can they do?
They have been weakened and made into ******s by the law and child services.
In Somaliland, from the time you are 9/10. You have learned to cook and look after yourself and as time progresses, more responsibility and work will happen. Discipline is paramount. If we do not have discipline, we will fail everywhere else. Discipline must start from the home and boy, my family never held back in ensuring we followed rules.
Hell when i explain to some of my friends how it is in E Africa, they looked shocked and said it was child labour :screwy
I agree here, although there is a divide between social conservatism and economic philosophies called conservatism. I believe in charity over state welfare but if it took state welfare to support these kids then I'd support that.
Fair enough but would every conservative? I doubt it
Interesting, it is something I very much support. Not that it is generally achievable without significant economic as well as political and social changes.
Not really
Africans not just Somalis are quite family orientated as are Asians in many respects.
My Grandmother lived with us when i grew up. It is absolutely unthinkable to send a relative to a home to die alone. Ridiculous imo.
And i will always remain my moms child no matter how old i am lol
It is a shame. Sometimes they have some points such as Hitchen's attacks on the media's glamourising of drugs but I still don't agree with them on policy.
I agree on that but that does not take away from the legitimate argument of legalising some drugs