Does it Take A Village?

I’m sorry but when I hear the phrase “It takes a village” I have to really stop and think hard about what is being said. Does it really take a village to raise your children to do right, to not bully, to respect their peers? My thoughts on this subject are, and a lot of people agree with me, is this: when we have the right family structure in the home our kids will not do a lot of these things they are doing now. The problem is we have had the village and our government raising our children for some time and where has that taken us. We always want to create new programs. Put forth new ideas, when the answer is already given to us. For the most part, there is no family structure in this country. No fathers to guide the kids the right way. When there are family structure and guidance in the home we had very few of these problems. It is the family unit that makes or breaks our kids. Now we have homes with no fathers, no guidance, no structure and the outcome of this is shootings in school, bullying, the lack of proper dress, and disrespect for the school teachers, and the list goes on. Lastly, I read nothing about spiritual guidance, something many do not want to talk about. There is a saying “The family that prays together stays together.” How true that is. I was raised in a small village in Caroline County called Harmony and there were many good people who lived there, who I respected and looked up to, but they did not raise me, my parents did. The village did not raise the kids, the parents did. The village had the boy scouts, Church functions for kids and the family, softball teams, and the like, but the parents raised and disciplined their children. It was the structure and the building blocks of the families that made Harmony a great village. Until we have structure, discipline, spiritual values, and most of all love in the family home we will continue to have the types of problems we see today. Not the government or the village, nor psychology, are needed to raise our kids. It has never worked and never will work. From the very beginning of time, it was the parents (the family unit) who raised the kids, not a village.