[newgeezer]

"... I feel as though I have failed as your father. I was not there to protect you, to keep you from harm. And I was not there in your most desperate time of need," said Andy Christie, Evelyn's father.

Well said.

[Tax-chick]

You're right, Andy. You failed your child from the moment you got her 16-year-old mother pregnant, you immature, incontinent, thoughtless male.

Justice is in God's hands.

[madprof98]

Yet I feel as though I have failed as your father. I was not there to protect you, to keep you from harm. And I was not there in your most desperate time of need," said Andy Christie, Evelyn's father.

The predictable lib response: "Oh, no, Andy, don't feel bad. There was nothing you (or any of the gazillion absentee fathers like you) could have done." This, of course, is a huge lie, but it makes libs feel better about abandoning their own kids.

[jude24]

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a second.

He was not a custodial parent. Okay, that's lamentable, and indicative of the disturbing decline of the American family. I fully agree with you there. But I cannot agree with you blaming the girl's death on the father's absence. He was not neglectful of her, nor did he actually harm her. He just wasn't around as much as a parent should be.

This guy is blaming himself for something that is not his fault. While the breakdown in his child's family is partially his fault, his daughter's death is not. Don't let a "pro-family" agenda make you blame the father of the victim.

[Paul_B]

> Evelyn's father didn't live at home with her, and it now haunts him that he wasn't around when she disappeared in the night.


The crime wave we're seeing against women and children in particular is part of a broad attack against the family. The weakest are the most vulnerable.

But that doesn't mean men are always to blame.