Idiot blew his leg off

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but the most important teachers any child has are mom and dad.

And how many kids have a "mom AND dad" these days? 

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/201...al-family/

Fewer than half of U.S. kids today live in a ‘traditional’ family

And even if they do you run into this phenomenon. 

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/famee.pdf

The share of married -couple families with children where both parents worked was 60.2 percent.

So if teachers are waiting for parents to pick up the slack they have a long wait because the 1960s are not coming back.