RE: Americas child death shame
July 15, 2013 at 1:47 pm
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2013 at 1:47 pm by Rahul.)
(July 10, 2013 at 2:05 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: The child maltreatment death rate in the US is triple Canada's and 11 times that of Italy. Millions of children are reported as abused and neglected every year.
You know the funny thing about crime rates? If no crime is reported you have a really low one.
Back in the mid-twentieth century we kept catching a lot of serial killers here in the US. Communists called it a disease of free countries.
They had serial killers too. Theirs were just getting away with the shit.
Really people in America anymore are just itching to call the cops on adults because they don't agree with their parenting style.
Sometimes the wife and I let our girls go across the street to play at the park. They're 8 and 9 years old. We've had the cops called on us several times over that. We go over, talk to the cops, and say, "What law did we break?"
They say, "No laws were broken. We just had a concerned member of society." We say, "Ok. Later."
Helicopter parents are annoying as fuck.
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.