Maybe I don't get it because I don't have kids. I read an article today about a teenager who had killed a bunch of people in a mall, and then turned the gun on himself. Mostly the article was about why he did it. His parents fought, physically, emotionally, mentally throughout his whole childhood. He was molested as a child and again as a teenager. His mother abandoned him and his step-mother hit him. WHAT THE FUCK!?!? How did this happen? Forget child protective services, the judges, teachers, friend...how did his parents allow this? Do we still not understand what our role is when we bring a child into the world? You LOVE it and you PROTECT it. You are demonstrating the very things that you are suppossed to be shielding your child from.
You know how Winston and Julia turn on eachother to save themselves in 1984? I can sit here and proclaim without a doubt that I would not be able to turn on my siblings. I practically raised my brothers. They aren't my children, but I would still take a thousand years of torture if it would save them from it.
So how can this be happening? How can a parent allow their child to suffer or die? Abuse kills four children every day, and three of those kids are under the age of four (http://www.childhelpusa.org/resources/learning-center/statistics). It's a disgusting statistic. Anyone who harms a child should be locked away for life. I can't discuss this further, it's enraging.
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