Just talking out loud.

I was sitting in my house this morning reading a short book about how our country has changed in eight decades.  It's amazing what we have accomplished over these years.  It's also sad that we have taken these accomplishments for granted. 
Looking back on what we have grown up with and what our children have, it's easy to see how the older generations believe we have taken too much for granted, and that because of this, our country has gone to hell.
We've become lazy with the invention of technology and the knowledge of the internet.  When my mother was a child, only the military had access to the technology that we experience every day. 
Now we live in the times of technology where even our young children have their own cell phones.  The best our money can buy.  We've given our children too much, too fast.  They take everything for granted and expect to have it all laid down at their feet, but the world doesn't work that way.  They aren't ready for the "real world".  We have not helped our children or ourselves because of this.  
At a time in our country where the jobs are few, it looks like it is time for Americans to reinvent themselves again.  How are we going to do this, you ask???  Well, I don't know.  I do know; however, we have to do something before the best job to have is breaking our laws in the criminal society.  I just hope that when we find it, it isn't too late to change everything around for the best of our society and people.

Why does it have to be this way?

For those with children, what do you tell them when they ask why a certain parent is never around?  How can you make them understand it isn't their fault that their father is not around and doesn't want to stay with them.  He doesn't want to watch them grow up, become adults, or help Mommy pay doctor bills, or make sure they have food on the table, a roof above their heads or items they need to stay healthy?  How can you tell a child that they can't have a particular toy, go see a certain movie at the cinema because mommy have to pay rent, buy food, gas, etc? 
Everyone tells you starting out that it is going to be hard, tough, but no one ever tells you what to say to your child when these questions come up.
Then you have the times when the child goes to visit this parent and he decides his "mistress" is more important to him and he could care less that the child is there, waiting for him to show some interest in his own flesh in blood.  All I know is I hope and pray that when the child grows up he doesn't become like his "father" sperm donor!!!!!  That would just be too much for me to digest.