Moral Absolutes Ping.
There have been many stories of child abuse of varying degrees of cruelty lately (there are always such stories, but they seem to be on the upswing lately). This story is not among the worst, the child is whole and still alive. But a couple of thoughts (also connected with an editorial I will ping out next):
1. If children, before birth, are merely abortable tissue, when does the magic change to "human" occur? The value of human life is diminished all across the board if some of of so little value that they can be killed with impunity. Evidence of this is that child abuse has not lessened since Planned Parenthood's "Every Child a Wanted Child" method of aborticide has become legitimate; in fact it has increased.
2. Mass culture influences children in the form of cartoons, movies, pop culture of every kind, slut clothes, and not the least, the leftist anti-family propaganda that saturates much of public school education. All this combined brings children to the lowest common denominator. How many parents have experienced that their small children are reasonably well-behaved and innocent, only to find that a few years of public school and immersion in mass culture (and hanging out with other kids with the same influences) and their children are now profane, insolent, worldly wise, wise-a**ses?
3. With so many marriages broken, with one third of all children in the US born to unmarried mothers (around 75% and up for black children), so many mothers even of tiny infants working and placing their 2 week old babies in day care, is it any wonder that many children are very, very ill-behaved? An ill-behaved child is a miserable child.
4. Horrible treatment to a child is often irreparable. Even kindly, loving parents who know how to disicpline properly can fail with a foster or adoptive child who has had several years of abuse and/or neglect.
The future of the world depends on children who are raised to be proper humans. We are failing egregiously in this regard as a country.
Many of you may be saying, but there are millions of well-raised children who aren't like this.
To this I say: There are millions of children who are so messed up that they will have a very, very difficult time growing into responsible, generally happy adults who will become good parents. It is a terrible tragedy.
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Dog crates are for dogs NOT children. They treated this child like an animal, they should be put into a dog crate and left there for a day. See how they like it.