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Chain the child

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Our parenting skills
have devolved,
deflated, been
packed up
and shot into space.

The latest urban vogue
is the electronic ball and chain
for 12 year-olds.
Monitored by satellites
built from our
dispatched fear,
we teach them
no values but hate.

The rebel child
doesn't spring
from the genetic pool
fully formed.
No chain will ever
mend a broken
childhood.

You can orbit
all you want,
but the absence of
love
will never show
as a point of interest
on Google Earth.
A new proposal from the right wing of the Danish government suggests using a type of satellite-monitored electronic ball and chain to keep track up unruly children down to the age of 12. Curfews would be put into place, and the police would have authority to transport the kids home if they were out at night.

This will most likely never become law, but I am appalled that we're even thinking along those lines here. Put the damn parents in chains if you really have to do something that stupid! Kids aren't dogs, and they can't be trained as such.

Ugh, there are so many heartless people in this country!
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bcatt's avatar
It truly does take a community to raise a child...and not the pseudo-communities found at government run centres.