Would fit in to many of your poll choices - notably #3 (video games for which you wisely bring up WoW addiction), #4 (Addiction to materialism and the buying of desired goods that are not necessities feeding the unsustainable economic growth), #10 (alcohol, drugs, and pornography are not a reason for failure-to-starts - it is addiction to these vices that is the root cause for anyone who would pick #10 as the choice reason), and #11 (TV programming isn't itself inherently bad - being addicted to it is what causes problems).

#9 could even be fit in as women become addicted to the power that comes with roles in society that were shut to them for so long and refuse to respect those whose place in society they have taken and harvested power from.

The feminist movement put a lot of focus on dead beat dads. The unintended consequence is dead beat moms. The dark side of the feminist movement is manifesting as women making the conscious choice to, instead of empowering themselves into affluent positions in society, follow the path of failed men that the movement railed against.

Down-trodden women may be looking at life from the perspective of, "Well, if men for so long got away with not being responsible for their children, I now feel empowered to get away with the same."

Ugh...

No wonder I'm a single father. My daughters' mother had the nerve once to criticize me for not helping my daughters cope with a lifestyle where their parents are separated. I had to remind her that my parents were married when my mother died. I had to remind her that her father left her family. I had to remind her that she is the one equipped with the experience to help her children cope. I asked her to help me understand better, as well. As usual, she flaked. That's getting real about life, which is something TV-indulged entitled brat children that can't mature seem to have a problem with.

And to think my daughters' grandmother is now high-and-mighty with her Jesus enlightenment, trying to tell me about all the unnecessary damage her daughter and I have done to my children and asking if I bring my daughters to church.

Her tone changed when she learned the truth of what her daughter's done to me. Haven't heard back from her since :)


My answer, OP: shitty parents. That's the #1 reason. Parents too indulged in TV and their own lifestyles. Parents trying to vicariously live out their failed dreams through molding their children into themselves. Parents that don't know how to foster open-mindedness and unconditional acceptance.