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Originally Posted by mixedmedia
I'm not sure why you are being so hostile. It is impossible to be physically present with our children 24 hours a day, seven days a week once they become a certain age and have lives outside of the home. I think we have a reasonably legitimate right to make the environments we live in with our children as secure as possible without infringing on anyone else's rights. I can't recall reading anything NG has said that implied this young man's rights have been been infringed upon. You seem to be disputing that she should have reacted to the news in a negative or concerned way at all. I don't get why you are so angry about that.
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First, i'm not being hostile. You're reading a charged piece and assigning hostlity to it because it disagrees with your opinions. If you happened to agree with me, you'd see my lament for better parenting in this country, not yelling. Second, I am
hardly the only person crying foul on the rights of the person in question.
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That said, most cases of child molestation are perpetrated by someone the child knows. Tell me how we are to keep our children safe from people we believe they are safe around? How are we to keep our children safe if we learn to trust someone whose past we DON'T know about?
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Right, but that's not what we're talking about in this thread- I'm not sure why you brought it up.
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Personally, as a parent, I'm a little offended by your remarks. Who the hell do you think you are?
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Personally, as a person who isn't a parent, I'm just wondering with great frustration where all the parents have gone- and it offends
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daily basis to see the kids that the parents of America are raising today. I think (know) that I am a person with opinions. You don't agree, therefore you feel offended because you believe i'm aiming my dissatisfaction at you, as though you are the one i'm calling into question. Those with whom I have an issue (on the grand scale of all parents) know who they are to be mad at my questions. If you're the good mother you say you are, and I have no doubts about that whatsoever, nor would I make such an assertion about any person, then you have nothing to be offended about because my questions don't affect your good parenting.