I agree... too many messed-up kids in foster care, and we all know why - it's because their parents were incapable of raising them. Well, not cases of teen pregnancy and whatnot, but I'm talking about kids from abusive or broken homes.
Not even that, parents don't parent their kids anymore.
They let them do whatever.
I once had clients whose kids were out of control and they were touching some books their parents didn't want them to touch and the parents asked ME to tell their kids to not touch stuff.
Like no, I am not raising your kids, you should. Parents try so hard to be besties with their kids that it'll ruin their children.
These kids don't know the word no.
There's a huge lack of teachers here and part of it is because parents expect the teachers to parent their children.
My mom works in kindergarten and every year it gets worse. That and you have 75% of the children in a class that are "gifted", "bilingual" or have something wrong with them, so parents want the teacher to give them special treatment and different tasks suited for their child.
Like no, that's why we have special schools for that