Posted on 02/22/2005 10:09:10 AM PST by Dubya
I think you just made yellowdog's point. She rejected him too late.
This sounds like something my husband says and that I have observed. Women like the bad boys (he says) and think they can always change him or that he USED to be like that but he is different now (I observe). The facts are often there if one would look at them objectively and before getting physically and/or emotionally involved. Nowadays, as movies and TV teach us, you have sex and THEN you find out if you are compatible, a good person, etc.
Yellowdog may be making an insensitive point on a thread that is very tragic but it does not mean he is totally wrong!
Social conservatives regularly bemoan the breakdown of the family and insist that it is not desirable for children to be raised by unmarried single parents. But whenever someone cites a specific case--often one in which children have been hurt or killed, especially by a mother's boyfriend--the response sounds like a Bleeding Heart Liberal discussion. We get "Who are you to judge?" and "You're blaming the victim!" and so forth.
I think that it's just as you said, the criticism hits close to home. It reminds people of themselves, their friends and possibly their own children. It's become so common to rear children in undesirable situations--occasioned largely by parental selfishness unchecked by moral restraint--that it's become the norm for our society and now it's possible to discuss it only in the most general terms without touching somebody's raw nerves. That's as true for conservatives as it is for those on the Left.
The only kind of living arrangement you can still safely criticize, even here on Free Republic, is a same-sex relationship. But most of the victims of bad lifestyle choices are not in that sort of situation.
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Get a clue, bub.
I don't need Oprah. I'm from a divorced home. Didn't see my father for nearly 17 years. My mother provided a stable, loving environment and never received a dime of child support. Of course in today's society, with the "no responsiblility generation", she and I would probably end up dead in a ditch. And you guys would be finding fault with her!
You go watch Oprah. Maybe you could learn a thing or two.
Who are these people?
Why?
Why on Earth do people do such horrible things?
I mean can't folks just let others live thier lives and thier dreams?
Why a young mother, expecting with joy and anticipation, the birth of a little girl and why a wonderful and intelligent little boy?
I need some answers!
This is crazy!
Why wasn't these two beautiful people (really three, with the EXPECTED child) permitted to live?
What happened to thier right to life?
Why? Why? Why?
Maybe if men would stop murdering women at the onset, middle and end of relationships...maybe men should use better judgment, period!
I apologize for these baffoons.
And say hey to your mother!
HA HA, didn't even realize the similarity of names. That is the only association as far as I know. Why?
Four counting the perp. He just will be moving around for a few more years. I see a needle in his future.
I am not agreeing with you! I am saying that you are blaming the woman for making a poor judgement with this man. I say how is she to know the real man? He hid the fact that he was married with kids already. It looks as if she made the "right" choice in breaking it off with him and it got her and her children killed.
Thanks for the update!
I don't know who they were but I know it angers me that thier right to life and the right of the unborn child to live have been violated!
"I will never again post on Freepers.
Promise."
If you are too thin skinned to survive responses of disagreement from Freepers, you are too tender to surf the net.
While the death penalty may or may not be a deterent, it sure cuts down on repeat offenders. Fry the guy. Whoops, make that inject the insect.
It is just beyond reasoning why anyone would murder - this guy will rot in Hell
Who died and named you God? Judge not, lest ye be judged.
I'm tired of stupid men, thinking they can just kill a woman when she becomes an inconvenience in their lives. They're not man enough to just break up with her or keep their pants zipped.
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