they both need to be locked up
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where do you find these stories man?... holly crapola!
Who calls the cops on that?? I'm surprised they even showed up, really!
Who calls the cops on that?? I'm surprised they even showed up, really!
The little fucker is lucky I'm not his parent with his behaviour. I wouldn't ask for the toy back, I'd march into his room with an empty box, gather up the pilfered game along with his other favorite toys and all his other Christmas presents and donate them to charity.
gravitas said:
I agree, she needs a damn good spanking and you are the right man for the job Gravitas
unfortunately she'll likely look something like thisshapeshifter said:
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also, I re-read the article and found the following quote kind of disturbing
a 63 year old great-grandmother and the evil criminal spawn is 12, WHAT THE FUCK????
I caught that right away. She was a grandmother in her mid thirties. And a great-grandmother before menopause. At this rate, she could be a great-great-grandmother before she collects her first pension cheque. For that reason alone I'm thinking this article belongs in the 'you may be trailer trash when' thread'.gravitas said:
Kindly keep your assumptions about age and character to yourself!
My mother and I are not "trailer trash." FAR FROM IT!
Women can start families at a young age and turn out perfectly decent, intelligent, and quite classy, thank you very much!
My mother became a grandmother at the age of 36, though I was 19 and married when I had my first child.
I became a grandmother twice this year (in July and October) at the age of 42.
And my mother, I am EXTREMELY PROUD TO SAY, is the first woman in my family to live long enough to become a great-grandmother at the age of 60, and is very much looking forward to meeting her great-grandson and great-granddaughter when she arrives from Ontario to visit us for Christmas this month.
And, like every other woman in our family before us, my mother and I look VERY young for our ages and are both very proud of that.
Oh yes, and my mother was 21 days shy of her eighteenth birthday when she had me, and also married. And the mothers of my grandchildren are 23 and 20.
And as for "breeding," I was an only child, and the youngest of my three daughters, who is 18, has no intention of having a family—she feels that she is too ambitious and career-minded to make room in her life for one.
As for being a "great-great grandmother," women in my family don't survive beyond their mid-sixties, and we're usually infertile by our thirties, which is why we start our families young.
Excuse me?!Dakota Wood said:
My mother and I are not "trailer trash." FAR FROM IT!
Women can start families at a young age and turn out perfectly decent, intelligent, and quite classy, thank you very much!
My mother became a grandmother at the age of 36, though I was 19 and married when I had my first child.
I became a grandmother twice this year (in July and October) at the age of 42.
And my mother, I am EXTREMELY PROUD TO SAY, is the first woman in my family to live long enough to become a great-grandmother at the age of 60, and is very much looking forward to meeting her great-grandson and great-granddaughter when she arrives from Ontario to visit us for Christmas this month.
And, like every other woman in our family before us, my mother and I look VERY young for our ages and are both very proud of that.
Oh yes, and my mother was 21 days shy of her eighteenth birthday when she had me, and also married. And the mothers of my grandchildren are 23 and 20.
And as for "breeding," I was an only child, and the youngest of my three daughters, who is 18, has no intention of having a family—she feels that she is too ambitious and career-minded to make room in her life for one.
As for being a "great-great grandmother," women in my family don't survive beyond their mid-sixties, and we're usually infertile by our thirties, which is why we start our families young.
Okay, thats great that generational teen pregnancy worked out for you and your family. For the family down in SC, not so much.Victoria Rose said:Excuse me?!
My mother and I are not "trailer trash." FAR FROM IT!
Women can start families at a young age and turn out perfectly decent, intelligent, and quite classy, thank you very much!
My mother became a grandmother at the age of 36, though I was 19 and married when I had my first child.
I became a grandmother twice this year (in July and October) at the age of 42.
And my mother, I am EXTREMELY PROUD TO SAY, is the first woman in my family to live long enough to become a great-grandmother at the age of 60, and is very much looking forward to meeting her great-grandson and great-granddaughter when she arrives from Ontario to visit us for Christmas this month.
And, like every other woman in our family before us, my mother and I look VERY young for our ages and are both very proud of that.
Oh yes, and my mother was 21 days shy of her eighteenth birthday when she had me, and also married. And the mothers of my grandchildren are 23 and 20.
And as for "breeding," I was an only child, and the youngest of my three daughters, who is 18, has no intention of having a family—she feels that she is too ambitious and career-minded to make room in her life for one.
As for being a "great-great grandmother," women in my family don't survive beyond their mid-sixties, and we're usually infertile by our thirties, which is why we start our families young.
Sorry, I just can't own your discontent. I think you took my post way to personally. It was not intended to be a direct hit at you and your family. The reality is I don't know you or anything about you. However, I do know from the news report posted in this thread, generation after generation of teen pregnancy did not produce the desired result of a productive member of society. Twelve years old and he is trying to lay a smack down on cops? Yep, that will get him far in life.
Pooncrawler questioned why the cops would even show up for the petty theft, that would be why, now they have him in their radar.
Sounds to me like Victoria Rose is the "exception" not the "rule"Dakota Wood said:
Time and tide bears out that generation after generation of teen pregnancy in "general" is not the preferred situation for best results.
People can always point to some instance where things turned out hunky dorey .... I once had someone try to convince me that letting kids play with matches from the age of 3 was fine as long as you have taught them how to strike the match and put it out.
They made their case by explaining that they had raised both their kids that way and they were now teens and had never burned the house down
I told them that I was happy to hear that they had'nt had any incidents or 3rd degree burns but I will stick with the opinion that the smart thing is to keep the matches out of the hands of toddlers
The truth of the matter was it had more to do with laziness than anything else, they were both smokers and did'nt want to bother putting their paraphenalia away when they left the room so they came up with the cover story that toddlers can be responsible match handlers if taught the protocol
It certainly wasn't. It was presented as a sweeping generalization that in every case where a family has grandparents in their thirties and great-grandparents in their early sixties, the whole family is "trailer trash."OTBn said:
And it wasn't just Dakota Wood who made the association. I was surprised—and hurt—by one other who did. And he knew my age and my mother's from private messages that had been exchanged before.
And for everyone's information, none of my three daughters have ever been in trouble with the law, and neither have my mother or I. We're all educated and have worked hard at gainful (and lawful) employment, which I still do full time on weekdays, and I went to university while raising my children. And I have no doubts that there are many like us. We work hard for everything we have, and consequently, value it that much more because of how hard won it is.
The thing that really got to me about such ignorant sweeping assumptions and judgments, was the people making them. People on PERB—of all places— who don't appreciate being judged or made assumptions of for the way they earn money, the company they keep, or they type of "entertainment" they hire by the hour—or half hour.
And a great many of the women in this profession are young single mothers too. How thoughtless and insensitive it was to make those comments in a place where so many might be painted with the same broad stroke! This board is the one place where such sweeping, and deeply insulting judgments and assumptions should NEVER be made!
I thought if there was one common bond we all shared, it was that society didn't accept us because of the industry we all have in common that they understand and won't accept, which we all accept about each other.
In any case, let he or she who is without sin cast the first stone.
And since no one here is, you should all keep your ideas about age of childbearing being an accurate guage of character and fitness to raise children (or accomplish anything else in life, for that matter) to yourselves.
I am by no means a perfect mother—who is? But when I see how my daughters have turned out, I feel that I have every reason to be proud of the job I've done. The fact that I started my family at 19 and had borne all three of them by the age of 25 made no difference.
Youth doesn't always make a bad parent, but love, strength, devotion, and raw determination to succeed will make a good one. You only think a young parent is invariably a bad one because the media only draws your attention to the ones who fail. You never hear about the ones who succeed.
Well now you have, so you can all take your stereotypes about teen parents and shove them.
Umm, actually it wasn't presented as "a sweeping generalization that in every case..." etc. You read it that way, but in actual fact it said you may be trailer trash if your family is like that. It didn't say that you are trailer trash if your family is like that.Victoria Rose said:
I'm probably splitting hairs here, because it probably was intended as "a sweeping generalization that in every case..." etc. To be fair, however, what was actually written included a qualifier indicating that not all such cases were trailer trash (although the qualifier was probably intended sarcastically).
