Posted on 08/28/2014 9:40:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
Right- and I feel sorry for their children.
Some of them will ALWAYS be too young to have children.
Spoiled and immature is not the way to raise children
Opps, my mistake.
Lol. NOBODY EVER gets away with ANYTHING here on FR...NOT the teensiest, weensiest, minute error....NEVER, NOHOW, NO WAY.
We are on the same page again.
I see a terrible accident but I don’t see any intent....I dare say there are few of us who haven’t been involved in some kind of action that we didn’t comment on how stupid we were and what “COULD HAVE” happened.
“Why wasn’t the father watching the kids?”
Obviously, he was working also ...
Definitely negligence is a contributing factor, but the person who killed the child was the one who hit her. Actually I am shocked that this doesn’t happen a hundred times a day. I have NEVER seen black women holding their childrens’ hands. They stroll around with babies barely walking and tiny children trailing yards behind them. One will-sometimes- turn to scream at said child for going to slow, but the minute they can walk they are on their own. Mama/whoever is on the phone or otherwise occupied talking to a companion. It’s common, accepted, childcare to a vast majority of black women, in my observations-and I have black relatives-only one of whom I have ever seen hold her child’s hand when out.
I gotta agree with you, I have noticed this also. I also see a lot of black people dragging kids by the hand, when their feet can barely reach the floor, the kids are sort of tripping along on their tip toes. At that age I was carrying my kid, but I was a big carrier, my beloved mother in law (first generation Scandinavian-American fwiw) used to scold me for it all the time.
Hey, I still watch my 13 year old niece ride her bike and wait with the neighbor’s 7 year old on the school busstop. The rule for little kids in my family was hold hands, or hold clothing, or hold the grocery basket at all times. I can’t fathom letting a 2 year old cross a street without holding your hand. In a case like this the law would be the last of my sister’s problems. If a child of mine died because of her negligence she would be safer in prison.
I hear you. I used to watch little kids, like first or second graders tramping through the snow covered streets of Bayonne at the start of what was a fairly treacherous walk to the local school. It was a very safe neighborhood but not pedestrian friendly. Quite frankly I thought their parents were nuts.
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