"Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 'Honor your father and mother' (this is the first commandment with a promise), 'that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.' Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord." Ephesians 6: 1-4 "First, as it were, in rank, first in importance! Not that ultimately any one of these is more important than the others, for they are all important. Nevertheless there is a relative importance, and I would therefore view it like this, that this is one of those laws which, when neglected, leads to the collapse of society. Whether we like it or not, a breakdown in home-life will eventually lead to a breakdown everywhere. This is, surely, the most menacing and dangerous aspect of the state of society at this present time. Once the family idea, the family unit, the family life is broken up - once that goes, soon you will have no other allegiance. It is the most serious thing of all. And that is perhaps the reason why God attached this promise to it." - D. Martyn Lloyd Jones from one of his sermons in 1959 or 1960 in Westminster Chapel London. If children are not disciplined, and allowed to disobey and rebel against their parents without consequence, everything falls apart, first in the home, then everywhere else. Why don't parents discipline their kids? Because we are rebellious against God's word and disobey his commands on how parents are to teach, train and discipline children. Rebellious parents raise rebellious children. Fundamentally, we are not going to see better behaved children/youth in our country until we see better behaved parents who turn from rebelling against God themselves. Apples do not fall far from the tree. Note: public school teachers are powerless to stop the decline in behavioral issues. The issues are 100% the parents responsibility, and incredibly I'm hearing that more and more parents are blaming teachers/schools for their children's behavioral issues.