This article was posted to ABC 7.30 Report at www.abc.net.au/7.30 on Posted on 5/05/2006
I'm a tax payer who is getting sick of fixing problems of people who keep blaming the society, the mass media, everyone except themselves about making their children taking drugs, speeding on the roads and killing innocent people, making them fat, etc.
In most cases, parents do have more contact hours with their children than outsiders. Why can't they look after the well being of their children better? Don't they know how to use the switch on the power point? Its a matter of turning off the TV if the parents of the fat children don't want the children to know about the Golden Arch, or the old man trying to entice the kids to eat the chook?
Probably there are a lot of readers or audience out there, just like me, would like to spend their money on themselves rather than fixing problems of irresponsible people who keep blaming others for their misbehaviour and arrogance.If they do not fix their own problems, don't expect others to fix the problems for them - well, definitely from not me!