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Originally Posted by analog
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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I don't see a lament for better parenting. I see accusations and the scapegoating of parents for child molestation. Do you suppose children weren't molested back when "parents were better"? Well, yes, of course they were, only people didn't talk about it like they do today. I agree that this man has rights, but can you explain to me more specifically how his rights have been infringed upon? By moving the bus stop? By informing the pre-school up the street? How? Or is it simply that NG exhibited alarm at discovering he was there? Because that's what it seems like.
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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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Yes, it is. Because it is quite conceivable that this person in NG's neighborhood could befriend her family without them knowing about his past. Becoming someone
they know. Making the point that this man's past is NG's business and the business of everyone else in their neighborhood.
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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 me on a 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.
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I understand your frustration about many parents these days, but I really don't think it has much bearing on this subject. And as for "your aiming your dissatisfaction" at me, I have already divulged on this thread that I have had a very intimate, personal experience with child molestation and perhaps your use of the term "all of you" gave me the impression you were talking to "us," the parents participating on this thread. And for your information, yes I am a very good, very protective, very involved parent and my children were molested. Your argument is better suited to discussions about juvenile delinquency.