Children Raising Themselves Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Chances of being famous and world-renowned are fairly
rare, yet many want to achieve fame in their lives.

Working hard, being respectable, dependable, fair,
honest, truthful, don't seem to be goals nowadays,
like when we were growing up.

Parents having slacked off because both of them are
working, having no time to be there teaching their
children, not even how to be polite, have manners or
respect authority.

Children now raising themselves, latch key kids,
having no role models to speak of, growing up with
others that are in the same situations as themselves.

Looking around, thinking how much nicer this world
would be had they been raised properly with both
parents.