The idea that teaching parenting coping skills is a critical function of the government is a relatively new concept. So far, the results have not been promising. But then it's about control, not results, isn't it?

One wonders how the hell we managed to raise generations of excellent American citizens over the past 200-plus years without such programs.

A conservative might wonder if the old-fashioned environment of an intact two-parent family (with the raising of children with specific objective values being the prime concern and with a full-time parent at home to manage it), might have had something to do with it. Especially compared with the progressive creche-raised child concepts so fashionable now. But even bringing up that subject makes Leftists shriek like vampires dumped into swimming pools full of holy water. Ask Dr. Laura.

"Thou shalt have no gods before the State" is the code of the Left. This includes the family, conventional religion, local government, and anything else that threatens to override the State's influence over the individual.