I certainly agree parents should take responsibility in raising their kids. But family is just one part. School, community, society all play roles in affecting how our children grow up. Your hands-off attitude sounds like "everybody should be able to take care of their own problem". Following the same logic, should parents take hands off approach as well? We don't need parenting at all, just let the kids sort things out themselves.
Government regulation is not always a bad idea if the industry does not regulate itself. The effectiveness of regulations such as tv and movie ratings, drinking age regluations etc is arguable. However, with our next generation at stake, we need to make very effort to make it easier for parents to take care of their children. With all those small internt cafe owners lurking around the corner for after school kids, there is something needs to be changed.
Maybe I should correct myself. I mean "It's not something parents can handle themselves ALONE!". We need community support to change the big enviroment.
>Yeah, I'm in the U.S. and these people are in China. That's exactly why you have such a view point. I have seen too many similar postings before about Chinese government regulation, human right, internet great wall... I can see you have a good heart. But you have to live in a culture to understand the scope of the problem. It's a sad thing. On the one side, people certainly don't want to have a big brother government. On the other side, it simply cannot work out the other way. A great example is the controversial one-child policy.
If you have a chance to be in the cities in China, you will start to realize it is an epidemic. It's not something parents can handle themselves. It really breaks my heart to see internet cafe owners take advantage of little kids and let them ruin, just to squeeze some extra money. I certainly agree regluation itself probably won't work well. We need to put more effort into educational campaign as well. But the situation now needs some desperate measures.
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I certainly agree parents should take responsibility in raising their kids. But family is just one part. School, community, society all play roles in affecting how our children grow up. Your hands-off attitude sounds like "everybody should be able to take care of their own problem". Following the same logic, should parents take hands off approach as well? We don't need parenting at all, just let the kids sort things out themselves. Government regulation is not always a bad idea if the industry does not regulate itself. The effectiveness of regulations such as tv and movie ratings, drinking age regluations etc is arguable. However, with our next generation at stake, we need to make very effort to make it easier for parents to take care of their children. With all those small internt cafe owners lurking around the corner for after school kids, there is something needs to be changed.
Maybe I should correct myself. I mean "It's not something parents can handle themselves ALONE!". We need community support to change the big enviroment.
>Yeah, I'm in the U.S. and these people are in China. ... I can see you have a good heart. But you have to live in a culture to understand the scope of the problem. It's a sad thing. On the one side, people certainly don't want to have a big brother government. On the other side, it simply cannot work out the other way. A great example is the controversial one-child policy.
That's exactly why you have such a view point. I have seen too many similar postings before about Chinese government regulation, human right, internet great wall
If you have a chance to be in the cities in China, you will start to realize it is an epidemic. It's not something parents can handle themselves. It really breaks my heart to see internet cafe owners take advantage of little kids and let them ruin, just to squeeze some extra money. I certainly agree regluation itself probably won't work well. We need to put more effort into educational campaign as well. But the situation now needs some desperate measures.