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Javaman

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30. Check the parents.

Reply to Bigmack (Reply #26)

Mon Oct 27, 2014, 09:31 PM

Oct 2014

usually, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. We have two extremes in this country. "helicopter"parents and neglectful parents.

One causes the kid to be afraid of everything, the other causes the kid to have no bounds.

Yes, there are a lot of normal parents out there as well, but the rise of neglect in this nation is rising dramatically.

oh and as aside, many neglectful parents seem to worship a the gun altar.

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