Quote: "I do not agree that the two social progams you mentioned (Education and child welfare) are so deficient in UK/US that they are as large an influence as parenting is."
Out of the 12 richest countries, USA and UK sit at the bottom rated for child welfare, UK is the one on the bottom.
Education, I don't know what it's like in the US, but I have friends training to be teachers and having gotten to know some of the teachers at school and seeing what the teachers are like, there can be uproar with what teachers can and can't do and how teachers can even call a child 'naughty', it's never the child that's naughty now, it's their actions that are. It's really silly things like that. Plus there is really no moral prescription being emphasised as the teachers rely more on the parents to do that (and parenting is something that's declining in this country) heck drug, smoking, sex education and binge drinking are all topics being approach with the choice aspect. Giving kids a 'choice', they're going to more likely go for the most glamourous one, despite the warnings. Kids of a younger age tend to base morality on what they're told, and this is a part of their development stage. If education is causing problems there, then education is something bad. Though my education was bad in general.
If I misread your message, apologies, the reason I say this, I'm half asleep, so I probably should be off to bed.
"Experience never provides its judgments with true or strict universality; but only (through induction) with assumed and comparative universality." - Immanuel Kant
