If you can't raise Sparky properly , then don't have it.

We see stupid dog owners everywhere. Those that allow their poorly-trained mutts to do whatever they want and just stand there without doing anything. The most common offence is allowing the dog to bark all it wants behind a door when people walk by. There is a difference between barking at strangers who enter the house and strangers who just casually pass by. It startles people and it's annoying as hell (especially those tiny dogs with their high-pitched yapping).Dogs, need to be trained. It is ALWAYS the owner's fault when the dog misbehaves - "Xavier". Some people have this warped idea that having a dog means feeding it and taking it for walks when they feel like it. The dogs just go on their free reign in the house most of the time. Not only does it show how much they care for the dog, it shows that the dog is just another thing to occupy their lives a little (so they feel a little more complete).

Now, replace Sparky and dog with Bob and kid. Yes, bad parents are every-fuckin' where. Kid yelling at the top of his voice? "Kids are usually loud". Brat annoying the hell out of someone? "But kids are like that what". Fuck you all. Instead of stopping their little accident, some parents even go to the extend of promoting little actions that seem harmless to them but is actually helping society create another stupid breathing organism that makes other decent people look like complete shit. If you don't know what is the right way, ask. Educate yourself before you jump into a commitment.

Why do people have kids in the first place? Logically, it's the next step after getting married (according to the standard life procedure handbook force-fed by your media). It's also the next step in your typical love-novel (Hint: Twilight has that too). How much more to love your partner, than to create a bundle of trouble for them? The government wants more kids too! Baby bonuses, tax-exceptions and loads of other freebies to encourage more babies popping out. Hey, it means more workers generating income for the nation in the future, and that means we can allocate less funds to old people and more for ourselves! (Sounds like a African Sweepstakes scam - you seem to earn a generous sum if you give them just a little back in return, but they just need more and more until you realize that you have just been scammed).

You see, I noticed this from the arcade I was working in. Most of the times, kids are accompanied by their parents. Nothing wrong with this, until the parents have no idea what they are doing except feed money. They don't follow instructions nor tutorial levels, and blame the game when they suck (Fighting and rhythm games) or just let the kid figure out everything on their own when they can read the instructions and help the kid with the game - usually resulting in suckage and wasted credits. The more important repercussion is the effect it has on the kid. The kid might grow up to suck absolute balls at a game throughout his entire life and not know why. 80% of the population for a game, let's say Tekken 6 - Dark Resurrection are simply button mashers who want to see flashy moves. 20% are the casuals and the hardcore ones. Someone needs to tell them that the game does not work that way, and if they want to see flashy stuff, go watch a film. Same can be applied to most games - King of Fighters series, Marvel VS series and so on. I'm speculating that the other archetype people in the arcade like the scrub and the spammer starts of with similar upbringing.

If the parents are free enough to watch a kid suck at games for hours, they might as well actually spend QUALITY time with their children. Take them out for a walk, teach them something useful or something else. If they want to bring their children for an arcade trip, at the very least, teach them how to play and not suck at it. It hurts to watch people suck at games when they have no idea what they are doing when the answer is blatantly shoved in their screens. There is a need for education on games, and less of games as an education method.

Outside of the arcade, there are disgusting public scenes of bad parenting all the time. Parents screaming at their kid for something as minor as losing ten cents on his way home (Would rival the Banshee in screaming power) and a little mistake on a test paper (Stereotypes aside, I've seen it happen). Somehow, some parents suck at parenting so bad that it warrants a forced removal of the child and sterilization. Oh, I almost forgot the typical Singaporean family - where both parents work and leave their kids to their maid. If the maid is someone who can handle children well, fine. When you have maids that don't give two shits about the kid, it's just having another pair of eyes to occasionally look at the kid. What sort of parents would leave their beloved children in the hands of an underpaid domestic worker who takes all sort of shit everyday?

Child protection services look out for children who are living with abusive parents, but who's
going to look out for those who are being corrupted by no0b parents? I'm not a pro-children guy by the way, I hate children all the same.