Absolutely horrifying. Dear God.
That girl was going to wind up dead and thrown into a ditch or buried in a shallow grave.
Where the hell was her mother?
I'll always love you,Vic Morrow
Probably drunk or swinging her legs open for a client. Who knows?
Yeah, who knows. Some people are as close to brain dead as you can be without being in a coma, and there's no stopping them from having kids. Maybe she's a meth user and has no conscience because of the drug use. I don't like to judge, because people are a product of their environment, but man, some people are just a breed apart from the rest of us.
shareI'm not brain dead or judging, I'm speculating. The phrase "who knows?" could go either way. Either the mother could be busy screwing up her own life without even thinking about how it effects her daughter or that she could be following in her footsteps. Or she could be working two jobs to support her daughter and not at home to see what the daughter is getting into.
Where the hell was her mother?
Yep.
I'd say at least 95% of these kids have a parent who is in jail or one who is way to soft, like the mother of that 15 year-old boy Koko.
WHAT WOULD SGT SAUNDERS DO?
Everyone always wants to blame the parents.
First of all: "Where was her mother" is a poor question. A better question is "Where was her father". Father's are more important to child development according to studies, to children past the age of 8. Over 80% of criminals in the US currently, were raised by single mothers.
Secondly, it's difficult to discipline children without a fallback point. Any reasonably intelligent child will eventually wonder why they have to obey grounding and time outs, test the waters, and discover that their parents can do nothing (according to the law, anyway).
We don't magically have more criminals per capita in recent years. It's because of our policies. I hate to offend the progressives here, but our laws and our society creates criminals at a greater rate than ever before. This idea of social experiments, abandoning millennia-old wisdom of child raising in order to institute policies that some childless social worker thought might be a good idea.. ...is a large part of our problem.
Parents simply don't have the authority to raise children as they wish. So I don't think we can point our fingers only at the parents.
This episode aired last night and it seemed to me the parents were trying to stop her, but it was more of case where the child was more comfortable with the internet and technology than the parents were. As a result they were always one step behind her. They were both there in the kitchen laying down the law. I know that was the case when I was young. The internet was so new and my parents never really knew what I was doing on the computer, even though it was in the family room. I never passed along contact information to anyone or did anything dumb, but I did talk to a lot of people I didn’t know and my parents never had a clue. Being a parent isn’t easy.