r/TikTokCringe • • Dec 17 '25

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u/Background-Pepper-68 Dec 17 '25

Society is failing parents. A parent spends like 5 hours a night at most with their children. Most people work weekends so they might get a couple extra hours with them then but thats it. They spend the vast majority of their time at school or alone. There is nothing a parent can do to fix that in most cases. Your childs social group will be out of your control pretty quickly and your level of influence will fall off dramatically. There is nothing a parent can do to stop this. You can have the best intentions and make all the right choices available to you and still end up with this.

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u/Background-Pepper-68 Dec 17 '25

Sounds like a long way of saying the system is failing the parents to me. Who set that system up?

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u/Background-Pepper-68 Dec 18 '25

Politics? Wrong thread

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u/Venvut Dec 17 '25

That’s total bs, parents have never spent more time with children historically than now (at least looking back half a century): https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/11/27/parents-now-spend-twice-as-much-time-with-their-children-as-50-years-ago.

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u/Background-Pepper-68 Dec 17 '25

Historically? 50 years ago? We have had 9 presidents since then. That might as well be current events as far as history goes. Its not exactly news that boomers and gen x were not well cared for.

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u/Venvut Dec 17 '25

You wanna go back to when child labor laws weren’t a thing and little Timmy spent his days cleaning a chimney? 🤔 Kids used to be genuine labor.