*sigh* 2 articles about failed parenting. Discuss!
And just HOW is that first article about "failed parenting"?!? A 6-year old girl is not going to think about consequences like that. And the mother, who was obviously in shock afterwards, was driving and couldn't pay attention to every single little thing her daughter was doing. Kids will be kids, meaning that they don't always think things through, and they get hurt sometimes. I personally feel very sorry for the both of them, and hope that they can live a normal life after this. I'm not even going to try to get how you equate faith and praying to stupidity, especially in this case.
How about a fucktard poster award? You'd certainly win that one.
Registered: Jul 2002
| IP: Logged
Daniel Butler
I'm a Singapore where is my boat
Member # 1689
posted
And how the hell is a school shooting the parents' fault? You want to say any time somebody goes postal under the age of 18 he isn't responsible for his actions? How many serial killers come from loving families? How many people come from shitty childhoods and turn out fine? People are not blank slates to be written on by their parents. And if they were, then nobody would ever be responsible for anything, because they could just blame their parents, who could blame their parents, who could blame their parents, ad infinitum. Or ad-am and Eve, anyway, a-hah, ahahahah.
Registered: Jul 2005
| IP: Logged
Teh PW
Self Impossed Exile (This Space for rent)
Member # 1203
posted
My ire is to the mother, in what she didn't do to contribute the chain of events that ended in the child getting hurt. windows down, not paying attention, etc. was the girl in a child seat? left side or right? front or rear? if she was in the Left Rear or the front passenger seat, why did the mom not see the rope via either driver side window?
Coulda-shoulda-woulda... doesn't matter. Girl's fine, she deal/addapt/over come her partial disability. certainly will make her unique.
it just sickens me when it takes blood sometimes to learn horrible life lessons (i should know. i have 11 screws and small plate in my lower leg for my own stupidity, once, long ago)
The fin shooter? Ok, maybe the parents arn't at fault. but where did the chain of mental failure start for that young man, where has it usually started in all the media-feed shootings of that nature? it certainly wasn't natural born killers, was it?
posted
Plenty of people do blame their parents, many with some justification. It doesn't matter if you were born a saint, if your parents are arseholes, junkies, thieves or abusive, you'll grow up with a somewhat skewed view of things. We are part nature, part nurture.
As for going postal and being mentally unstable, we all know that there isn't much anyone can do in that situation. We all know of people who are weirdos and borderline psychos in our neighbourhood, and no amount of gentle parenting is going to fix and defuse them anytime soon.
-------------------- www.kennyscrap.com - where I download crap I make.
Registered: Jun 2003
| IP: Logged
Daniel Butler
I'm a Singapore where is my boat
Member # 1689
posted
Agreed, Axeman. ...Haven't seen you around before. I'm the schmuck.
Eh, ok, Pensive, you have a point about not seeing the rope. Attentiveness to detail when driving is something most people lack, though. And about the blood-teaching thing, well, I don't know why it sickens you, as it's pretty much an eternal truth of human (or perhaps sentient in general, who knows) existence that things have to be learned by experience, and that some experiences are very bad.
Registered: Jul 2005
| IP: Logged
Printer-friendly view of this topic
