Are Poverty, Illegitimacy, and the Nanny State Creating Feral Children

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In America today, there is a growing subculture of feral children, born to single mothers in the lowest socio-economic strata who started having babies in their teens, many as early as 8th grade. Their fathers either left as soon as they made their genetic deposits and most likely wound up in prison, or wound up dead, so these children have never had a positive male role model in their lives. The mothers have no idea of how to raise a child, because they are usually the product of similar circumstances. As a result, we have a growing population of children, with another born every year, who are not growing up, they are growing feral. They lack basic social skills, manners, respect for self and others, and have no coping skills other than the fight of flight response evolution had ingrained in human kind by millions of years or eat or be eaten. This feral nature is then honed by the “street” mentality of their community. These kids are taught that any and every slight, real or imagined, must be answered with violence, or they will be thought weak and will become a target for every thug and thugette in the ‘hood. This horrendous situation has been fermenting in the poorest neighborhoods of America since the Great Society of LBJ first allowed fathers in these poor communities to abdicate their responsibility for their offspring to the Nanny State, and that same Nanny State began rewarding women for becoming and remaining single mothers by punishing them with a loss of benefits if they married their babies’ fathers. Fifty years into it, we are seeing the terrifying results born out in elementary, middle, and high schools around the country as the feral children are growing up with no basic knowledge of what it takes to live as part of a civil society. They disrupt school, start fights, bring drugs into the class room, and attack teachers, administrators and fellow students with little or no provocation. They refuse to obey rules, treat adults with respect, or act civilly toward other students. These are the same behaviors they exhibit at home and in their neighborhoods. When teachers and principals try to correct this abhorrent behavior, they are verbally – and sometimes physically – attacked by the student and/or the student’s parent. Administrators at higher levels too often turn a blind eye to the havoc such children wreak in the classroom and tend to blame the teacher for not being able to work with the student. Perhaps those administrators, from DC, to the state capitols, to the local school board, to the Central Office should try spending the night in a zipped mummy bag with a couple of hungry feral cats and dogs inside. Then they’d get some sense of what classroom teachers face on a daily basis. As I said in a previous post, public education is a sinking ship, and everyday someone puts another torpedo into its hull. Until the public wakes up and admits the problem is there, nothing will be done to keep the ship from going under.