Posted on 05/29/2025 11:21:59 PM PDT by Morgana
Happened on South side of Chicago. 1 year old girl and two boys ages 3 to 5. Mom is 33 years old. Neighbor took all 4 to the hospital after finding the baby on the ground, and watching the mom come out with the other children covered with blood.
All 3 children are in serious condition.
Neighbor said he heard the eldest child say to the mom "don't cry mom everything is going to be okay"
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Savages
We used to around where I was raised. In fact, we took in relatives who were down on their luck from time to time until they could get back on their feet when I was a child. Every family I knew of did.
Again with the hazy location! Africa is a giant continent! Please specify, localize, and/or characterize the type of human habitation (squalid Lagos slum; bushman settlement on edge of desert) you are talking about!
And you are wrong to make this about "Christianity." In Muslim societies, too - even where polygyny is actively practiced - loose women are not tolerated, and societal resources are not squandered on helping them raise their broods.
Same applies to 19th-century Japan, ancient Judea, and a variety of other civs.
Has nothing to do with Christianity or "the position of women in society." For most of human history, in the majority of societies, bastardy was reviled, and loose women were consistently punished.
Regards,
I doubt Father's Day cards are a big seller where she lives.
Huh?!
In any event: Are you saying that a cousin with two bastard children (from diff. fathers) and a third one on the way, suddenly showing up on your doorstep, would have been welcomed with open arms? Are you saying that the "elders" wouldn't be taking the youngin's to the side and explaining, "It's our Christian duty to help Cousin Thelma - but she is a dirty woman, and you'll get your backsides tanned if'n we ever ketch you playing around before the weddin' night!"
You are able to make statements like you have with a straight face only because you are indulging in vagueness and not telling the whole story! Don't omit important details: Cousin Thelma had to parade around in sackcloth and ashes!
Regards,
Central and southern Africa, small cities not major metropolitan areas. Traditional culture permeates.
It is well known and accepted that the extended family helps out with the ups and downs of life. That is just the way things work at this time - I am just an observer.
Why these observations appear to bother you is difficult to understand.
Who said they bothered me?
Merciful to the rest of us, those poor children, and prevent any future rutting by this monster.
The Law of the Jungle. Claw Law. Don’t go into the jungle unless you’re prepared to live jungle law.
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“Now this is the Law of the Jungle — as old and as true as the sky;
And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die...
...But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!”
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Poem: https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_lawofjungle.htm
Audio:
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Toe the line
Those who can and believe pray for the kids. I can’t muster any sympathy for the mother ...
I understand where you are coming from - but there seems to be genuine disagreement among experts as to which expression is correct. I'd say it's the rare case of BOTH expressions being correct - with somewhat different meanings.
Regards,
No it is a common misunderstanding of the phrase similar to duct tape being called duck tape.
The correct phrase is “toe the line,” which means to conform to rules or standards. “Tow the line” is a common misspelling of this idiom.
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Vocabulary.com
https://www.vocabulary.com › articles › pardon-the-expression › toe-the-line-vs-tow-the-line
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Toe the Line vs Tow the Line: Clearing Up the Confusion
Oct 14, 2024 Learn why “toe the line” means to follow rules or expectations, while “tow the line” is a common error with no meaning.
The vagueness, one-sidedness, and "feel-good" tenor of your facile statements bothered me.
I re-iterate: Yes, in (e.g.) small town America in the early 20th century, too, the (extended) family would have helped out - but the loose woman would have been branded, generations of children would have been lectured about her wanton behavior, the pastors in the pulpits would have had a field-day, etc.
You conveniently left that part out!
And with multiple baby-daddies?! Cousin Thelma would have been branded the "Whore of Babylon!"
You admit that you are an "outsider," so I would ask you to reconsider your superficial observations before sharing them here. You have probably not witnessed a lot of the "behind-the-scenes" village chatter.
I cannot conceive of traditional rural African societies countenancing such behavior! At a hunter/gatherer level, that might work - but not at any more-advanced societal stage. Any such subsistence-level society would collapse within a few generations. Only wealthy Western nations can afford such madness.
You are merely "reporting your observations as an outsider" without providing any added-value in the form of plausibility-tests or the like.
Q.v. Walter Duranty commenting, "I don't see any mass starvation of the Ukrainians! Looks okay to me!" during the imposed famines of the 1930s.
Try turning on your "bullsh*t-meter."
Regards,
It has a (different) meaning. I used it NOT in the sense of "adhere to gen.-acc. rules or soc. norms." Rather, I used the expr. "TOW the line" - synonymous with "pull one's weight." My expr. comes from "a team of men pulling a barge - and every man pulling his weight."
Sep. idioms with diff. meanings.
To assert that "tow the line" is WITHOUT meaning, as you have done, is invalid.
But thanks for your input; this case does, indeed, resemble an "eggcorn" and I understand your confusion and always welcome an invigorating conversation about word-meanings!
Regards,
Always someone else’s fault. Always.
They are sold next to the book section and the work boots.
Oh my gosh.
“Central and southern Africa”
Bullseye!
Gotta be in the Southern hemisphere.
“I hope the fathers of these kids comes and gets them and takes care of them.”
No, you don’t. They’ve already proven they’re terrible people with poor character. They would be dreadful fathers!
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