<DIV>YOu seem to have a problem with me :) Nah, I'm, stuck up, I know it. BUt you guys won't admit that you have one track minds, follownig some stupid agenda.
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<DIV>Oh dear, I forgot, because I'm young, I'm nto allwed to have opinions! Would you like me to also stop going to school to become a doctor so I can actually take care of the sick? Maybe I shouldn't work either, because I'm far to young? I didn't know opinions were only allowed to those that agree with you.
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<DIV>Hahaha, if only I did hate my family! Then your silly insult might have hit close to home! In all actuality, anonymous individual on the internet, I am more than willing to give up my life for my sister's, my mother's, my aunts', my uncle's, and so forth. We're all interconnected, alwyas having huge get to gethers. ANd no, we're pretty much all immigrants from the USSR, with the exception of my sister and I. All conservatives, except newsflash! Our lives don't revolve around God and Christianity. SHOCKING! Liberals, conservatives, same trash.
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look who's talking. the majority of you "good natured" people just respond with calling individuals "liberal trolls" when they don't agree with your rabid, christian beliefs. i'm a normal person, i don't act like a good person because I'm afraid of God's judgement, I don't behave well becuase I've been restricted. I'm a good person because I grew up knowing whats right and wrong, and witnessing everything int he world. Sorry hyperactive Christians can only see their way of life as right; its far from it.

I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH YOU. THIS DESERVES CAPS BECAUSE EVERYONE HERE IS SO STUCK UP AND IDIOTIC. Ugh, I'm tired with stuffy conservatives and loose liberals with no real train of thought. you're amazing.

I think you missed my point, but because you and all these overly-uptight conservatives believe in restricting what i can watch,you get higher points. pathetic pathetic pathetic. i have no source of news without bias.

Crimes and Misdemeanors was pretty excellent as well! I loved it beyond words.

The article may share a point that their way of life isn't wrong, but I would say it goes as far as starting to demonize (which is too strong a word, but any other is escaping my mind at this point) parents who don't restrict children from "pop culture". My one annoyance with your counter-argument (but not with you, because I don't fight people, but their ideologies...and I must say, thank you for a very well-thought out, intelligent reply, without name-calling and so-forth) is the mentioning of the proverbial "slippery slope". There are certain things that are grotesque, offensive, and it may be hard to avoid through normal means. I dislike hypothetical examples where people say, "then you suggest SO AND SO!" No, I never even hinted towards that. There are certain things that are not age appropriate. In many of my ethics/values philosophy class, we've thoroughly discussed pornography and if it should be considered free speech and if parents should restrict their children from it. I would say that arguing that showing pornography to your child (who in your post is 5 years old) is quite different from watching Wizards of Waverly Place or iCarly, or letting them listen to Katy Perry.

If you raise your children correctly, without going to any extreme, they end up rejecting the silliness that society is trying to push on them. this is my problem with both the right and the left. to each, parenting is always dependent on other influences. why not you, the parent? why does it have to be media or television? since when do we have to rely on others to be moral to raise moral children! if everyone took these steps, there wouldn't be sheltered children or those who have seen too much. sorry, but i've seen everyone from all walks of life, and my life has been far from easy (no, I'm not some rich white kid from suburbia dying under new angst), but had I had an uber-atheist/liberal parent, I'd be dependent on the government and susceptible to peer pressure. Had I have an uber-christian/conservative mother, I wouldn't know the life I have now.

I can imagine I will get many thumbs down, but I'm going to express my dislike of the Duggars. It's their lives, so I don't care about what they do and how they do it, but I myself would never lead a life like that (or subject my children to it). My mother is a pretty staunch conservative, to say the least (and I am one myself, so before you decide to give me a thumbs down because I don't like this family, I'm making the knowledge known.)

My main problem with the Republican party is the emphasis on Christianity. Frankly, we're non-practicing Orthodox Christians, and I enjoy my life that way. I don't act like a "good" person because I want to please anyone, but because that's the way I ought to behave, for a better humanity. I believe that any extremity is a dangerous one, regardless if either side sees it good. We're neither atheists, or pious Christians, but my family as a whole is filled with some of the most ethical and moral people you'd meet.

I have a problem with your argument. So, I listen to a bunch of classic rock, grunge, and indie rock. According to you, I should be promiscuous, largely atheist, and an all-around bad person. I went to public school, so I should be filled with insecurities and angst. I won't deny this; I am not angsty, but I definitely find more things in this world repulsive than I do beautiful. I watched the Disney Channel and Nickolodean as a child and I still do, and I watch Jersey Shore because it's wonderfully trashy, so I should come out as someone who hates adults, finds parents embarrassing, and definitely promotes having unsolicited sex with people I'm not in a committed relationship with. Except, newsflash! I read a new book every week, I'm maintaining a 4.0 GPA with a major in Biochemistry, I have a healthy relationship with my family and friends (which involves fighting from time to time, but that is what healthy is...not seemingly perfect!), I think I'm pretty, and boys don't give me self-worth, and I believe in the importance of choice.

Had my mom ever raised me as the Duggar parents do, I would be extremely hateful towards her. I would never be able to experience things on my own. Perhaps it's because my mother managed to gain asylum from the former USSR, where she first hand saw what a lack of choice resulted in. I, at my 19 years of age, am allowed to drink my with family and close friends and cousins. I recently came back from a trip to Europe, where my sister and I drank whenever my mom allowed us at a festive wedding. I have never had the urge to binge drink at parties, or smoke weed, do ecstasy at stupid raves, or snort cocaine.

I'm the result of just good parenting; my mom raised me with morals, but didn't shield me from the outside world. In this long winded response, here is my point: if you raise your children well, the pressures from the "outside/real" world don't matter. keeping them from the dangers outside is silly and foolish.

go ahead, give me a thumbs down. there's a difference between me, the duggar kids, and weirdo american kids who are whiny, obnoxious and destined to fail in the real world...i understand moderation (and the chance of wearing pants, though I'm a girl.)

hmm, I can't help but agree! I'm happy my mom always gave me choices, I came out completely normal :)