dern workenvironment is besieged with problems. Reductions in real wages, corporate downsizing and the cessation of the companyman ethos that governed American labor relations during the 1950s and 1960s has madeit impossible for parents to devote necessary time to their children because they have towork harder than every just to make ends meet (West 1). The goals of financial success have placed the goals of raising a kid to the backburner. These impersonal parents scrape up the few extra dollars to buy the hearts of theirchildren (McCallum 2). In our materialistic society, parents are more concerned about thephysical things they provide their children that about the values and habits that preparechildren for a life on their own (McCallum 2). The nineties have been defined as the information age and rightfully so. Anyindividual who accesses todays wide variety of electronic medium--computer, Internet,television, radio, compact disks, CD-ROMs, and interconnected libraries--finds ampleinformation on any subject, regardless of content. The nostalgic argue that when thesekids contact this huge barrage of objectionable material without guidance from parents,the material acts as a surrogate mother, advising the children with undesirable choices.Such choices include rash violence. TV permeates every nationwide household, and itsflickering light is the de facto babysitter for overworked and underpaid parents, who oftenhave to support the family without the spouse present. Their version of a modern parent falls victim to the medias hidden messages. Themedia portrays dads in deadbeat ways that do not reflect on actual parents. In movies likethe Shining, the father was an abusive alcoholic and rap music epitomizes poor examplesof deadbeat dads and their crack addicted single mothers. As a result mothers are morelikely to ditch their boyfriend of husband for single parenthood convinced they will raisethe child in a better environment without the fa...
