Raising children in america.

Raising children is one of the hardest and most controversial things I have ever done. There are so many do's and dont's. Then there is always somebody that thinks differently from that. Every day I watch the news, and I can't help but think my children could one day be on it. You do your best to raise them but in the end I think it depends half on there personality and half on there upbringing that decides what they will do or be. I know children that didn't have a chance because there parents were a mess, but now have there own business, and are better people than there parents ever will be. I know of children that were abused as a child and have become very successful, were others in the same situation turned to a life of drugs and drinking with no positive future in sight. I have also met children that where given every opportunity in there child hood, and there was nothing there parents wouldn't do for them. But they still chose to do the wrong thing and make bad decisions. It's all really a crap shoot. You hope that your children will always do the right thing, and make the right choices. But it is truly up to them once they grow up.
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