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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 609136" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>I'm afraid that it may be that this is not the first generation of this family that has been abandoned by society. So very sad, and so very wrong.</p><p></p><p>I'd want to look back and see if the family had options. Probably not - it costs a fortune and we all know that! Was the child in Head Start, or did he just start Kindergarten at nearly aged 6 and no one had ever even considered him before? I could just scream when I see the abject poverty around me, the little kids in underwear and bare feet playing in front of the boarded up mobile home with a stick in the red clay. Daddy's got a dirt bike and a four-wheeler, though. Nothing nice, but he has his priorities. When he's around.</p><p></p><p>I'm not saying that's what this family is like. I'm saying that we have badly failed more than a couple of generations of children, and when a 9 year old knows how to steal cars and get on the highway with them, take the train to the amusement park and slip in with another family, and get on a plane to Vegas without a ticket, they have <em>all</em> been needing help for a <em>very</em> long time. It gives me the heebie-jeebies thinking of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 609136, member: 99"] I'm afraid that it may be that this is not the first generation of this family that has been abandoned by society. So very sad, and so very wrong. I'd want to look back and see if the family had options. Probably not - it costs a fortune and we all know that! Was the child in Head Start, or did he just start Kindergarten at nearly aged 6 and no one had ever even considered him before? I could just scream when I see the abject poverty around me, the little kids in underwear and bare feet playing in front of the boarded up mobile home with a stick in the red clay. Daddy's got a dirt bike and a four-wheeler, though. Nothing nice, but he has his priorities. When he's around. I'm not saying that's what this family is like. I'm saying that we have badly failed more than a couple of generations of children, and when a 9 year old knows how to steal cars and get on the highway with them, take the train to the amusement park and slip in with another family, and get on a plane to Vegas without a ticket, they have [I]all[/I] been needing help for a [I]very[/I] long time. It gives me the heebie-jeebies thinking of it. [/QUOTE]
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