Commercialising indecent values

Freak

Ida, I think the only way your super-responsible parenting method would work is if your kid was home-schooled, and wasn't allowed to make friends until he/she was at least 14 or 15 years old. That is, if you want your kid to be completely unaffected and uninfluenced by everything around him/her.

I know that, personally, I've been influenced more by the people I watch on TV or listen to on my stereo or hang out with in person, than either of my parents. That's not to say I don't love my mother to death, but I've grown up wanting to be like Eddie Vedder and Johnny Depp, not my mom and dad.

Dr. Giganto

Amen brother!!!

I'm so tired of people refusing to take responsibility for their lives and the lives of their children, and simply looking for a scapegoat whenever they can. Nobody has any accountability anymore.

I've listened to rap music since I was 12, and I've never killed anyone, degraded women, or committed any serious crimes. You know why? Because my parents raised me right. They taught me right from wrong beginning at a very young age.

It's a parents responsibility to shape their childrens morals, not TV

and to what everyone said as follow-ups to Ida: we all do stupid things from time-to-time in our lives, no matter how well our parents raise us. But good parenting can help us not cross the line from doing something borderline stupid (like throwing yourself backwards through a coffee table) and doing something totally idiotic and possibly illegal (like hitting someone with a steel chair)

Also, I wont be naive and say that it always works, because it doesnt. For instance, my aunt has three children, and she raised them similarly to how my parents raised me. The two oldest are both extremely well-rounded, college-educated, hard-working individuals. The youngest, however, dropped out of high school, doesnt have a job, and has been arrested(not for anything serious. just some petty shit).

my point is that good parenting isnt a guarantee that a child will grow up to be a productive, well-rounded member of society, but its a start, and I think that a lot of society's problems today (especially in america) stem from bad parenting

and going back to the original post. yeah, that woman-on-a-leash thing is pretty ridiculous. The thing that I hate is that a lot of non-rap fans look at that and see that as the personification of hip-hop, even though theres a lot of talented and positive rappers out there. I also listen to the "guns, drugs, crime, hoes" kinda rap, but there's a whole separate side to hip-hop that a lot of people dont get to see, because bling bling is what sells these days