Originally Posted by allaboutmusic

Some parents are bloody idiots... working as a classroom teacher, I've had students whose parents could barely take care of themselves, never mind their kids. These are 12 year old kids who end up parenting two or three younger siblings, picking them up from school, cooking dinner for them and putting them to bed before their father arrives home drunk. You have to have a license and pass a test before you are allowed control of a car, I sometimes think the same should be expected if you have control of a child's life.