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Ms. Toad

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12. You seriously don't see the difference

Reply to 951-Riverside (Reply #10)

Wed Apr 29, 2015, 10:44 AM

Apr 2015

Between expecting parents to control the behavior of individuals who are currently minors and blaming the parents of adults for not training them right?

Do you really think your employer should call up your parents when you are repeatedly absent from work - as schools are mandated to do when children are truant from school?

The law treats those two situations differently, because they are different.

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Where are the parents of the police-officer thugs who have been killing innocent people? [View all] pnwmom Apr 2015 OP

Because those rioting were primarily teens. Ms. Toad Apr 2015 #1

What you said. nt cwydro Apr 2015 #2

I can't tell whether a young man is 18 or 22, just by looking. pnwmom Apr 2015 #3

Again, there is a difference between blaming parents for upbringing Ms. Toad Apr 2015 #4

I don't "watch" Fox either, but I have seen clips of it here. n/t pnwmom Apr 2015 #5

I don't "watch" Fox either, but I have seen clips of it here. And the issue wasn't the parents' pnwmom Apr 2015 #7

The parents of the police no longer have the right to control their behavior Ms. Toad Apr 2015 #8

Yeah, but that's different. Because ... because. closeupready Apr 2015 #6

It is different. Ms. Toad Apr 2015 #9

Excuses. Excuses. Excuses. 951-Riverside Apr 2015 #10

You seriously don't see the difference Ms. Toad Apr 2015 #12

No, it's absolutely NOT different. Bad parenting spoils a child's lifetime. closeupready Apr 2015 #11

The question is not whether bad parenting is a good thing. Ms. Toad Apr 2015 #13