[VRWCmember]

he fathered a child he left behind....he does not have custody, she has been in a juvenile facility before.....perhaps he should have thought about his love for her years ago.....sounds like she needs more than a little love. like a real family, say starting back to when she was born.

We don't know that he "left her behind" but we do know that he doesn't have custody. We also know that he is now trying to get custody. If is very possible that he wanted custody all along rather than "leaving her behind" but was denied by the family court system that all to often assumes the mother to be the better parent (when it certainly appears in this case that was a wrong assumption).

[mckenzie7]

It is not unusual for parents to find fault with authority that they have called in to control a situation that they are helpless to control. They seem to take glee out of calling other people down who are only trying to subdue an out of control child.

If they knew what it took to control the child, they should have done it themselves.

Obviously the parents didn't know what it took, but they certainly knew what it didn't take.

Could a spanking have helped the child to understand that bad behavior has consequences?

She certainly hasn't learned anything about respecting authority with the parents going after the police.

Parenting classes are in order for the parents and maybe they ought to put their own agenda aside and be unified in their love, support and discipline of the child.