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Originally Posted by maleficent
Talk about snap judgements...I am not demonizing partying (though drugs with a child in the house, is wrong -- always -- you cannot ever justify that - but that's not why she's a bad parent)
I could care less what this mother was doing before she was part of a group that savagely beat and raped a man. She left the child alone in the house to go out and avenge a wrong?
She's a bad parent because she set a bad example. When do two wrongs ever make a right.
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Moving backwards... she set a bad example by not responding in the correct manner. How many times in that girl's life do you think a man will peep in her window late at night and be beaten to within an inch of his life by her family? This was a specific circumstance. If anything, this is a lesson in self-control and measured response. We're all human. That being said, I side with neither party. The peeper should be punished and rehabilitated in accordance with the law, and the family should be charged and brought to justice for the disproportionate/extreme reponse to the scenario. By the way, does one bad example make a person a bad parent in general? We all have our buttons...
I don't feel that leaving the house was all that big a deal. A guy was peeping in on her sleeping 5-year-old. Shit went down. It's an extreme circumstance, stuff happens.
Finally, to your first point-
I passed no judgments whatsoever. The closest I came to offering opinion was when I said it was a disgusting generalization- that's my feeling, not a judgments on others.
Refresher...
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drugs with a child in the house, is wrong -- always -- you cannot ever justify that - but that's not why she's a bad parent
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How can I not justify that? Because you say so? Ludicrous. So you've never imbibed alcohol with a child around? You've never smoked a cigarette or other tobacco product with a child around? You've never taken advil, tylenol, Premsyn, Midol, Benadryl, or any other prescription or over-the-counter medicines? "Illegal" drugs are "illegal" because they're "illegal"
here. They all have an effect on you. They are all considered "drugs". Passing judgment on another's ability to parent based on something as small as the use of a drug is a poor excuse for lack of information in the situation and a snap-judgment is the result of negligence in rational thought.