I really have to quit reading this stuff. It makes me extremly angry. I used to just look at these things and say, "yeah, that sucks." Now that I have a son, it absolutely kills me to think that someone could treat their child like this.
It's more common then you think --- we only hear about it when they die. I just started helping at a crisis shelter for children up to 6yrs old. It's really sad -- and all these kids want is somewhere to feel safe someone to hug them and love them. There is a whole cycle of poverty that's causing a segment of our population to be looked over. I don't have answers - but it's a problem that's not getting better.
actually it's in York Pa. My only child I adopted when she was three -- now she's grown. I never went through the whole baby thing so baby's allways intimidated me. This Saturday I went into the shelter for my first official day and the lady said go get the baby (7 mos) up and ready. It was so awesome! She was a perfect little miracle. At 42 yrs old I discovered that in a crisis shelter. I feel privileged that I can even be there. Then I got the other kids up, to walk out of the bedroom area with 5 little pajama clad toddlers following along is just an awesome feeling.
That's a cold stero-typing of a very real situation. If you grew up in a house where your parents used drugs and you were on your own at a very young age or quit school to work to feed your younger brothers and sisters. It 's easy to point to that person and say they are poor because they are lazy. Alot of the problem is an atitude problem -- a sense of entitlement -- but not all of it. How do we help break that cycle? I think we need to get the kids young and give them the support/encouragement/confidence that they aren't getting at home.
yeah, b/c as a kid, you get to choose who your parents are, where you live, how you live, and what you eat.
It's nice what you're doing, but the fact of the matter is that America is set up so everyone can succeed, no matter how poor they are. If you're making money, it's proof that you're intelligent and hard-working, and if you're in poverty, it's proof that you're dumb and lazy. And if you're dumb and lazy, you shouldn't have children because they'll end up dumb and lazy too and will spend their lives in poverty because they're not smart and don't want to work.
This strikes me as a character issue more than a poverty issue. There are millions of people in poverty who don't torture their kids.
I'm guessing you are the privileged white suburbanite. You are incredibly ignorant to the racial and social workings of this country and it's that ignorance that works to perpetuate poverty and racial prejudice. Go read a book
While I am known for starting music threads (which apparently many find to be repetitive despite the service it provides to many other people but that is an entire another story), hotballa is becoming known for starting threads that has these stories that no one sane would want to read because they are that awful.
