Somewhere, accountability in the home has quietly given way to expectation from the state. Yet, South Africa appears to have entered an era where parenting is increasingly outsourced to the state. Somewhere, accountability in the home has quietly given way to expectation from the state. The intervention followed months of complaints about violence, bullying, gangsterism and deteriorating discipline at the school. Rarely do we hear honest reflection about the absence of boundaries, consequences or discipline within the home itself.