It's unfortunate that you feel your criminal son, benefited from being expelled from school....should have gone to jail and would probably have learned a great deal about the real world.

The almost complete Parental failure, in this country has led to this almost complete social breakdown, and is in large part, the reason we are where we are at today. Home school is the best in most situations, unfortunately, only about 5 % of the people who have children, should.

The almost complete Parental failure, in this country has led to this almost complete social breakdown...

You write as if you almost regard "complete social breakdown" as being a bad thing.

Yeah, yeah, this country's going to hell in a handbasket. It's that rock & roll music, ya know... If only we'd get back to Jesus... blah blah ...

In the post-collapse milieu a whiner like you will simply be shot. :)

It all began when the kid started using words like "swell" and "so's your old man." THAT'S why we got trouble....

Children ARE, a reflection of their Parents. The old adage of "no bad kids, just bad parents" is very true. They learn from a VERY early age, how to behave from those around them....we all pay the price for a Parental failure to teach a child to live in the world as a decent human being, and let the TV/internet/street do it for them, or rely on others, because the fact is, most humans who have children, do not have the ability to raise them. An ability is not a right, even when it comes to breeding humans.