[Coleus]

The Great Society of LBJ and Bill Clinton's Midnight Basketball Program in Action

[AppyPappy]

Gee, I wonder what influences them to do this?

[frogjerk]

A good home, his mother calls it, with two working parents who believed in the value of education and the power of after-school activities

When the cat's are away the mice will play.

[ozzymandus]

"There's no such thing as a bad boy." What a load.

[texas_mrs]

I realize it is hard to know everything a teenager is up to, but how the hell does a 6 or 8 year old become STEEPED in anything without their parents knowledge?

[MrEdd]

A good home, his mother calls it, with two working parents who believed in the value of education and the power of after-school activities to keep kids from hunting down trouble.

Their belief that you could delegate raising your children to the government and a bunch of hired hands appears to have worked out like it usually has. Maybe this two income thing Really does have a cost not measured in money. Imagine.

[stm]

Anyone here not think they should all be tried as adults and sentenced commensurately?

[gridlock]

The parents watched this behavior over eight years and did not stop it and did not remove the child from that environment. I feel very little sympathy for them today.

And an officer is dead.

I have very little sympathy for the parents of the killer.