Children become socialized through watching and reproducing social behavior. In a 21st century nuclear family, what is there to watch? Your parents and mass media. There is such scant common space -- such little opportunity to observe adults interacting as coequals. Sure, school is awful. Children are cruel. But... how else do you sand down the rough edges of learned behavior? How else can you produce adults capable of civil interaction with a stranger? Schools have unfortunately become that load-stone. I don't think you can remove it -- you have to shift the weight, spread the load, reorient society away from the profit motive...
also with the amount of hours people have to work these days there is a real chance the parents will not be around long enough for the children to learn much from them. So that basically leaves tv
Children become socialized through watching and reproducing social behavior. In a 21st century nuclear family, what is there to watch? Your parents and mass media. There is such scant common space -- such little opportunity to observe adults interacting as coequals. Sure, school is awful. Children are cruel. But... how else do you sand down the rough edges of learned behavior? How else can you produce adults capable of civil interaction with a stranger? Schools have unfortunately become that load-stone. I don't think you can remove it -- you have to shift the weight, spread the load, reorient society away from the profit motive...
also with the amount of hours people have to work these days there is a real chance the parents will not be around long enough for the children to learn much from them. So that basically leaves tv