Originally Posted by
The_Bouncer
I guess in the absence of personal responsibilty (a concept society is not really big on) this may be a necessary step.
Holding harried parents to rigid standards of personal responsibility is really low.
The world doesn't exist to mete out punishment at everyone who doesn't meet your personal standards of contract. Raising children is 1000 times more important than anyone's right to an aisle seat on an airplane.