Parenting, 21st Century Style

This is very sad. There's something very wrong with the world when parents have to hire other people to do the parenting.

I recently saw a program on the National Geographic Channel (I think) on zoo apes and changes in their lives over the past 50 or so years. The first apes to be captured and taken into zoos were young, since it's much easier to capture a juvenile ape than a fully grown one. In the absence of parents, zoo workers raised these young ones. When these animals grew old enough to have their own children they had no idea how to raise them (as they didn't have much contact with ape mothers or fathers). So zoo workers had to raise the next generation of ape children, and so on.

People seem to be going the way of the ape. One generation messed with the concept of family, and it's having some pretty severe repercussions. Let's hope people can re-learn how to be parents. If we can't, we're in deep trouble.