We should and can expect parents to make right decisions about their children — right?
Parents want their kids to grow up strong, healthy and have the knowledge neccasary to lead a productive life — right?
Maybe we assume to much? If you ask any parent the question above, the overwhelming response will be — “of course they want that for their child”.
Parents may have the desire to see that for their children, but lets assume that they don’t know HOW to achieve that. Just like what happened in the recent hurricane Katrina disaster — FEMA and the American Red Cross launched a pilot progam in which 10,500 emergency debit cards at a value of $2000 a piece were issued to evacuees.
The program was killed within a few days of its implementation, though, because of reported abuses: one survivor reportedly bought “over $700 in high heel shoes and purses” at a Memphis department store “while (her) younger children, most of them looked under the age of 3, looked like they haven’t showered in weeks.”
“If they make an inappropriate decision as to what to purchase, the whole issue of victims’ rights comes into play,” said Bill Hildebrandt, CEO of the Mid-South chapter of the American Red Cross, “They have a right, I guess, to be inappropriate.”
Lets always assume, when dealing with parents, that they have the desire but not the knowledge — and work to educating them to approporiate decisions!
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