Obligatory Morality class

As we observe our world evolve, we can watch critical changes happen on family values, education and morality.

When my parents were expecting their first child, my mother decided to stop working so she could take care of her child’s education, even with she having a college degree and a good job. She once told me she couldn’t stand having a babysitter spending more time with her baby than she did, because she thought it was extremely important to teach her kids everything she have learned, instead of having a “strange” that she had no idea of her past taking care of their education.
And that was something most families still used to do some years ago. At least here in Brazil.

Nowadays that’s nearly impossible. The life cost is way higher now. The public schools here are terrible and many are dangerous, what makes all the families that have a chance assign their kids on private schools. The public hospitals are very bad as well, what obligates them to have a private health care plan. Baby supplies are very expensive, as is food, and so on....
Most of the families now with a little child can’t afford to have one of the parents (the mother or the father) stop working to take care of the kids.

So we have now a lot of parents that don’t have time to spend with their children. The only time they have available is at night, when both are tired, and some on the weekends. A lot of kids are being educated by the internet, television, babysitters, teachers, friends, etc. The parents don’t have time to pass to their kids their own values, morals and educate them right, what is generating, to my eyes, a lot of problems.
We can notice a lot of young girls that don’t understand the real value of a sexual relation. Some people, after graduate at high school, don’t even try to get in a college or start working on something, and decide just to live at their parents expense with no ambition in life at all. Some people haven’t learn how wrong it is to “hurt” other people (not only physically), or to don’t pay for their mistakes. And things like that.

Thinking about how important family values and morality have been to society, I don’t know why they haven’t created yet an obligatory class for all the school and college levels, with a representative number of hours, for teaching those subjects: family values and morality. That would exist to assume the role many parents aren’t being capable of assuming. The teacher should be a psychologist or psychopedagogist able to create a bond with all the students, to talk to them, to teach the importance of doing the right, of being right, of fighting for the right. Nothing theoretical, but like a group counseling. Not linked to any kind of religion at all, just showing how to be a better person and things that, in the future, will make a difference to the kids. If it’s rightly done, it would be the solution of many problems in the world.