Quote: Originally Posted by
razer_jt 
there are a few views and angle to tackle this question and yet it still won't be answered. The first and easiet would be to see reason, believe it or not, children understand at a very young age though they may not be able to reason at first but they do understand sooner or later enough and it doesn't matter when you tell them why they can't have it or why its bad to do something. The example here would when my maternal grandad past away and my kid sister who wasn't even 4 then was asking whether grand pa was going to a far away place and was never coming back. She kept asking throughout the funeral if grandpa was going away and not coming back.
Another angle would probably be peer pressure and that parents don't think that their child will understand so they just say NO and its the end and it will work out somehow. I'd say this kid was under the impression that what the rest had he had to have to in order to fit in and as humans are if you don't have it ur not part of the crew. I'd rather go against the trends and find something better for myself that makes me, me rather than to follow a trend and then have it die out just like that and leaving an entire group breaking apart at the end of it.
Well the last would be as you say society is screwed up thats why, its the best way to do it, blame it on society and everybody blames it on society and nothing is done at the end of the day. Point the finger not my fault, and everybody points the finger and blames one another and that won't solve the problem.
I agree, socializing the child should be primarily a parental role, not up to society as a whole, so in a sick sort of way, this is the parents' fault