While we say the future depends on our children, we don't feed all of them. (2) While the United States is the wealthiest nation in the world, more than 11 million American children are stuck below the poverty level. (3) Nor do we spend a lot of time with our children. (4) The time that parents spend with their children in meaningful interactions is measured in minutes per day, while the time children spend watching television is measured in hours. (5) We hope that our schools will do the job we aren't doing at home, but we pay schoolteachers a tiny percentage of what we pay professional athletes. (6) We graduate hundreds of thousands of students each year who cannot read their own high-school diplomas. (7) We isolate our teenagers from the world, quarantining them in school buildings. (8) We give them little responsibility, and demand of them even less. (9) By cutting them off from the adult world, where they could develop a sense of competence and belonging, we leave them alienated and open to joining gangs that will give them a sense of belonging. (10) And many of us have turned away from the human values that have served all the generations that came before us. (11) We act as if enduring values are not important, and then we wonder why our children often seem so morally adrift.
You can infer that this author
a. thinks society's attitude toward children is often hypocritical.
b. does not believe our children are "morally adrift."
c. is opposed to setting expectations for children.
