Posted on 11/30/2004 5:25:06 PM PST by saquin
I find that statement ludicrous. The brain may go on "developing" with input stimulus and experiences which shape thought for a lifetime. Please do not confuse cellular development with lifelong learning.
I'm no fan of a Dickinsonian childhood, but it happens. Chances are this girl will be something entirely different as a result of her mother. She will be something much better. The mother is not mentally well. I've experienced it in my family.
"The hottest place in hell should be reserved for those who abuse or neglect a child."
"He had rather not been born who causes a child to stumble".
Agreed!!!
Yes ---not only did he end up buying his ex and her sleazy boyfriend a nice house to live in --- when his daughters moved in with him, he still had to pay child support and leave his apartment to get a place big enough for the three of them. He did end up with custody in the end and was able to cut off the support so it ended okay that way.
Do you remember when a lot of boys dropped out of school at the end of the sixth grade to start work?
The government has child labor laws that won't let most 14 year olds be self-reliant. Also in the past people were lucky to live till 40 so they were forced to grow up faster. And life was pretty rough for many back when children had to take care of themselves at age 13 - 14. Even if kids have to work they should still have family around that cares about them.
could not agree more whiny kids hell shes 14 at 14 i had to walk to and from school uphill both ways
Come again? I hope you are being sarcastic.
uphill both ways come big time sarcastic.
When my granddaughter was 5 her mother refused to let her come to her house or spend any time with her for 6 months because she was a "bad" girl. My son didn't tell her why she couldn't go see her mother and her brother got to go stay with her once a week. She finally asked me if I would talk to her father and see if he would let her go see her mother because she thought he wanted her to stay with him. I got him on the phone and told him what she'd told me and he told me the truth and later let me read the letter that his wife had written him. Needless to say, I was disgusted. I only wish she'd run off with a lover and not leave a number or address.
Gee, I think it must be the "Me me me, I'm worth it!"
mentality of a spoiled generation of people. We know two kids 13 and 15 whose mother left them and their dad to move in with a wealthy man in his mid to late 70's (she is about 35). Well, evidently after she burned her bridges, the old man didn't marry her and now she's living with a relative and threatening to kill herself. The kids are just trying to carry on normal lives and are tired of her jockeying and manipulating.
Agreed!
November 8, 2004 -- A 29-year-old Connecticut woman — accused of sexually assaulting an 8-year-old boy for months — says she considers the little neighbor her "boyfriend" and hopes to marry him someday, authorities said yesterday."I don't want anyone but you!" Tammy Imre allegedly wrote in a letter to the boy, who was a playmate of Imre's 7-year-old daughter.
True but these days it's difficult for a 14 year old to get a job to feed and cloth themselves. In fact it's illegal.
That's what you get for growing up in Escherville.
There is a special place in HELL for parents like this one.
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