THE PARENT TRAP...

>> Monday, November 09, 2009

There was a rather surreal debate on the BBC this morning on the issue of parenting. I suggest to you that the BBC is antagonistic to the essential idea that a traditional family unit provides the optimum environment in which to bring up children which is one reason why it shills for "gay marriage" and other such bizarre inventions. So in this discussion at 7.50am, we have a really strange debate on parenting which has a lady, Camila Batmanghelidjh of charity Kids Company, who seems to believe that the State can be an effective substitute for parents. Richard Reeves from Demos suggests that those on a low income struggle "to parent well" and thus need government "help." So much jargon employed, so little common sense.

4 comments:

1327 11:33 AM, November 09, 2009  

<span style="">Given how often Batmanghelidjh is in the media I'm amazed she has the time to do any other work. The media love her crazy dress sense and willingness to do interviews but so rarely talk about the work her charity do. The little I have read doesn't fill me with confidence however.</span>

<span style="">What I can't understand is Batmanghelidjh's mindset. The state has totally failed the children she works with so she seems to campaign for yet more state involvement. Wouldn't a better solution be for charities to run childrens homes as they used to in the past ?  </span>

Laban 2:22 PM, November 09, 2009  

Camilla, while in many ways a noble and admirable woman, has no children of her own.

"If you don't play the game, don't make the rules"

sue 8:34 PM, November 09, 2009  

I really like Camila Batmanghelidjh. She certainly does not oppose good parenting nor does she underestimate the value of family stability, or think that the state can be an effective substitute for parents. She isn’t merely ‘of a charity’, she set up Kids Company herself.

Camila Batmanghelidjh is compassionate, constructive and an expert in child development. She works with the casualties of inadequate or non existent parenting, and she picks up the pieces and supports them after things have gone very wrong.
 
Here endeth the lesson.

P.S. I have several children.

Asuka Langley Soryu 8:41 AM, November 10, 2009  

Check out that bitch's eyebrows. Damn. No wonder she hates everybody/is a lefty.

Antony Jay

"But we were not just anti-Macmillan; we were anti-industry, anti-capitalism, anti-advertising, anti-selling, anti-profit, anti-patriotism, anti-monarchy, anti-Empire, anti-police, anti-armed forces, anti-bomb, anti-authority. Almost anything that made the world a freer, safer and more prosperous place, you name it, we were anti it."
Antony Jay, Telegraph, July 2007

Andrew Marr

"..the final answer, frankly, is the vigorous use of state power to coerce and repress. It may be my Presbyterian background, but I firmly believe that repression can be a great, civilising instrument for good. Stamp hard on certain 'natural' beliefs for long enough and you can almost kill them off."
Andrew Marr, The Guardian Feb. 1999

Jeremy Paxman

"But the bigger question is whether the BBC itself has a future. Working for it has always been a bit like living in Stalin’s Russia, with one five-year-plan, one resoundingly empty slogan after another. One BBC, Making it Happen, Creative Futures, they all blur into one great vacuous blur. I can’t even recall what the current one is. Rather like Stalin’s Russia, they express a belief that the system will go on forever."
Jeremy Paxman, The James McTaggart Memorial, 24th August 2007

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