[Balding_Eagle]

So you’re saying the mom left the child alone, and then the child was attacked?

That what was behind my saying that the parents are open to an endangerment charge.

This was at a dem convention site, right?

Knowingly going into enemy territory, and then leaving your child alone to be attacked? What kind of parent does that?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Doesn’t look like the kid was really alone at any time. There were plenty of pro life adults there. Had anyone tried to physically assault the girl, they would have been very very sorry.

The girl also had doubtless been briefed on how ugly the “choice” people could talk.

What this did do was to provide an occasion to document for the world how ugly the “choice” crowd acts, that it would even flout a little girl. The little girl herself? She got called some bad names, and she knew to expect that.

[usconservative]

Knowingly going into enemy territory, and then leaving your child alone to be attacked? What kind of parent does that?

Wrong question. What kind of adult verbally attacks and assaults a child? Answer: The WORST kind of adult: a Democrat.

[darrellmaurina]

39 posted on Mon Sep 03 2012 19:24:18 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by Balding_Eagle: “Knowingly going into enemy territory, and then leaving your child alone to be attacked? What kind of parent does that?”

From a legal perspective, somebody can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I remember litigation on this was either begun or threatened with the Westboro protesters. My recollection is the family members were determined to be within their rights to bring their children to a First Amendment protest. If that was legal and not child abuse, I think it's obvious that the parents here were within their rights.

From a moral perspective, I think we need to respect parental rights in this matter, as well as parental discernment of what their children can handle.

I can see Balding Eagle's point. I do not want my 13-year-old daughter at a protest like this. She's too naive and I do not believe she could handle this.

On the other hand, children react to things differently. At that age, I was already a pretty fiery conservative Republican. I was not a Christian at the time and didn't have a strong position on abortion, but I would have had zero problem with going to a secular conservative protest against some sort of liberal outrage, and would have welcomed the opportunity for a verbal confrontation.

We need to leave those kinds of decisions to the parents involved. They know their children best.