Parents In Trouble Again

MI2AZ

Active Member
For letting their kids walk alone.

I guess I am too old to understand why all the government concern. When I was a kid, we all walked to school alone and elsewhere. What, now kids have to be escorted by their parents to school every day?

Also don't understand why the cops would pick up the kids 2 blocks from their home and then keep them for 2.5 hrs in a patrol car before taking them somewhere and why it took about 3 hrs for someone to contact the parents.
 

livespive

Well-Known Member
Times have changed, you have to be more responsible. I myself think they should stay out, but the fact is, who are you going to come running to when your child is taken because you didn't want to walk down the street with them. Lots of manpower lost......
I feel the same way about people that go rock climbing, or skiing and get caught in the snow. you should not have been there...
You want others to risk their lives over something stupid that you did.

That's just my take.
 

9andaWiggle

Addicted Member
A few more reasons I don't want and don't have kids.

1) You can't trust anyone thanks to the proliferation of sick fucks that are out there. Thus, it is harder (in my childless opinion) to teach self reliance and independence when you have to constantly be smothering them for their own good.

2) The government is too involved in telling parents how to raise their kids. Intentions may be good, but like anything else the government does, when they get involved things get fucked up and families get destroyed. Ultimately, except in extreme cases, I think CPS probably does more harm than good for families they get involved with. Admittedly, maybe that's from watching too many 60 Minutes specials about families being destroyed by government programs that lack any ability to apply "common sense" to a situation and rationalize a quick, effective solution to the problem.

And what about government mandated school testing of students. I know first hand of two kids in our neighborhood that passed their classes and were allowed to "graduate" with their class, but still have not received their High School diploma because they can't pass this one final test. IMO that's fucked up. The student did everything necessary in the classroom, but are being unjustly punished by The State while the school/teachers are not held as accountable for their failings as the student is. Withholding that diploma is MUCH more damning to the pupil than fines and sanctions are for the school/teacher.

3) I can't possibly see how there is any fun left in being a kid. They're not allowed to be kids, or they're put on drugs!! (Funny, a swat on the ass to correct behavior is frowned upon, but giving them drugs to turn them into little zombies? That's perfectly fine!) So why would I want to bring a son/daughter into a world I wouldn't want to grow up in?
 

Spider

Member
humans are now considered children, until aged 30. Congrats to GTGT for recently becoming a functional adult.
 

Good Times Good Times

Active Member
[QUOTE="Spider, post: 4839, member: 263"Congrats to GTGT for recently becoming a functional adult.[/QUOTE]

2 Points:

1) Where is my dedicated congrats THREAD!?!?! :Roflmao:

2) GTGT definitely pays his taxes, he's an adult! HE'S A MAN, HE'S 30! :mad:
 

Djarum300

Addicted Member
Good lord how far was this park? My parents used to have us ride our bikes up to the grocery store, about a half mile away, when I was 9 or 10 years old. We'd go and play basketball at the open courts at the elementary school until dark. Thats a few miles away from home. Why didn't the cop just pick the kids up, find out where they live, and take them home?
 

Scolai

Active Member
People say times have changed, but they haven't necessarily gotten worse. The rate of kidnapping, which I would suspect is the primary concern here, is negligible at best. Children are most often kidnapped by their mother or father. Kidnapping by strangers is such a small number as to be statistically anomalous - something like 3% of all kidnappings (about 4 children per year).

So what's the big worry? A liberal PC establishment that wants to make everyone believe that there's a bogeyman hiding around every corner waiting to spirit children away. It's complete bullshit, of course, but facts don't matter to a machine that wants to punch out cookie-cutter kids who are afraid of their own shadows and look to government authority to protect them from any and every possible danger that exists in the world.

Self-sufficiency is frowned upon, so allowing kids unstructured play time with the possibility that they could become even slightly self-aware is going to be met with heavy resistance from the establishment.
 

livespive

Well-Known Member
I agree with you, but I don't just think that it is kidnapping. You and I would have, or have taught our kids martial arts, and how to take care of ourselves, but I think that dealing with the cruelty of of others plays a role as well. There are many other things that have gotten worse. Also the bad guys don't always take you somewhere, they just go behind the bushes now.

People say times have changed, but they haven't necessarily gotten worse. The rate of kidnapping, which I would suspect is the primary concern here, is negligible at best. Children are most often kidnapped by their mother or father. Kidnapping by strangers is such a small number as to be statistically anomalous - something like 3% of all kidnappings (about 4 children per year).

So what's the big worry? A liberal PC establishment that wants to make everyone believe that there's a bogeyman hiding around every corner waiting to spirit children away. It's complete bullshit, of course, but facts don't matter to a machine that wants to punch out cookie-cutter kids who are afraid of their own shadows and look to government authority to protect them from any and every possible danger that exists in the world.

Self-sufficiency is frowned upon, so allowing kids unstructured play time with the possibility that they could become even slightly self-aware is going to be met with heavy resistance from the establishment.
 
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