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<blockquote data-quote="svengandhi" data-source="post: 679678" data-attributes="member: 3493"><p>I watched the Columbine tragedy when it first occurred sitting on the couch with my newborn son in my lap. I watched Dylan Kleibold's mother on TV the other day with my soon to be 17 year old son next to me on the couch. I remembered thinking, as a parent whose oldest child was then only 8, that how could it be that a parent wouldn't just KNOW what was going on in their child's life. Now, as the parent of her 5th teenager, I get that feeling of wanting to give your child some privacy, some pulling back as they approach the college years and of really NOT knowing what's going on, especially with those kids who outwardly give us no trouble. Most parents don't want to imagine their children as monsters - Jeffrey Dahmer's parents loved him and "Son of Sam" had caring adoptive parents - and I can't judge this mother. She didn't buy the explosives for him or encourage him. Besides, why is it always the mother who's to blame?</p><p></p><p>The main thing that I have learned over the years is that 17 and 18 year olds are NOT adults and their brains are not done growing. </p><p></p><p>I kind of wish that the brains of the people who commit these acts could be autopsied to see if there was anything organic that caused them to do this, like the Texas killer, Charles Whitman, who killed his wife and mother-in-law and then shot about 20 people at a college in 1965. He left a note saying he didn't feel like himself and please autopsy his brain. It turned out that he had a brain tumor that caused his behavior to turn violent. I'm not saying that this is always the case but if something can be found from this type of research, maybe it could help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="svengandhi, post: 679678, member: 3493"] I watched the Columbine tragedy when it first occurred sitting on the couch with my newborn son in my lap. I watched Dylan Kleibold's mother on TV the other day with my soon to be 17 year old son next to me on the couch. I remembered thinking, as a parent whose oldest child was then only 8, that how could it be that a parent wouldn't just KNOW what was going on in their child's life. Now, as the parent of her 5th teenager, I get that feeling of wanting to give your child some privacy, some pulling back as they approach the college years and of really NOT knowing what's going on, especially with those kids who outwardly give us no trouble. Most parents don't want to imagine their children as monsters - Jeffrey Dahmer's parents loved him and "Son of Sam" had caring adoptive parents - and I can't judge this mother. She didn't buy the explosives for him or encourage him. Besides, why is it always the mother who's to blame? The main thing that I have learned over the years is that 17 and 18 year olds are NOT adults and their brains are not done growing. I kind of wish that the brains of the people who commit these acts could be autopsied to see if there was anything organic that caused them to do this, like the Texas killer, Charles Whitman, who killed his wife and mother-in-law and then shot about 20 people at a college in 1965. He left a note saying he didn't feel like himself and please autopsy his brain. It turned out that he had a brain tumor that caused his behavior to turn violent. I'm not saying that this is always the case but if something can be found from this type of research, maybe it could help. [/QUOTE]
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