[Vision2020] Evidence of Bush Family Values

[LuJane Nisse publisher]

nothing is absolute. Of course children from a loving, honest home have a
better chance of growing up loving and honest but it isn't absolutely and to
point at a child and say "he/she acts this way because he/she must have
good/bad parents," is not an accurate statement in my opinion. As I would
not judge parenting ability by the way a child acts, I would not judge a
child to be bad if his parents are "bad."
You can get into a huge, long debate on these things, but in this situation
(bush/clinton)... my statement was meant to say, "do not judge the parent by
the child."
(actually we shouldn't judge at all.)

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Tbertruss at aol.com [mailto:Tbertruss at aol.com]
  Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 1:10 PM
  To: lujane at lataheagle.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Evidence of Bush Family Values



  Lujane:

  Do you mean to suggest that parents should in no way be considered
reflected in their children?  Do you really think that kids just make up
their own minds and grow up however they are going to, and the good or bad
example or influence parents might have on their children should not be
considered when children exhibit problems?

  This appears to be your position, an attitude I doubt most people or most
social scientists or psychologists would find very tenable.

  So the abuse of a child raised in a home with hatred really is not a
factor if the child exhibits problems?  The parents are off the hook?  And
W. Bush also?

  Wow, this is great, parents everywhere can heave a sigh of relief!  Their
behavior has nothing to do with how their children turn out.  Kids just make
up their own minds about how they are going to live.  And it's just an
amazing coincidence that 90%+ children in the USA decide to become
Christians, and 90%+ in Iran decide to become Muslims, given that they are
free willed beings who are not controlled by their families.

  Right!

  Ted Moffett
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