[Oscar The Grouch]

Frost__2001,Apr 3 2006, 02:39 PM Wrote:reality is it's up to the person / parent to really influance their children to do activitys round the house, or out in public, and for alot of Canadians it's hard to do that too with the costs of living are as high as they are not to mention how hard it really is these days to sit down with your kids and talk to them, let alone make a real home cooked meal like that of what people ate 50 years ago.
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Good point. I believe as well that this whole problem originates from the corporate world.

With the elimination of the middle class, a single income in some instances cannot support a family of four. Therefore, mom and dad have to both have jobs just to make ends meet. Why has this happened, wages have not followed very well with the cost of living and inflation over the past 50 years. There has also been more of a push for women to work and not stay at home to raise the kids. Instead, kids are sent to daycare (although there is nothing wrong with daycare, nothing can beat a mother's touch to raise kids).

So in conclusion, i don't think that it is just the fast food corporations who are to blame, its really all of corporate america and their rich owners.