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Articles: Mummy Dearest |
Posted by
Coal_Hearted_1 on Thursday, July 19, 2001 - 04:23 AM PST
While sitting down to dinner for the past couple of days I would turn on the T.V and there would be another breaking News story about parents who has been abusing their children or killing them! This makes me sick. And its not like this happens only once in a blue moon either.
The First story was of a good christian family who had their children takin away because they refused to stop spanking them! (now thats just stupid but the others make me sick)
Another couple were arrested for forceably confining thier two sons who are now teenagers in a celler, forcing them to sleep in cage cribs and refused them food, and light for years.
Recently a woman was arrested for dangling her child by the legs over the balcony of her appartment building!
And most recent...a woman was found in the trunk of her car, unconsious with her two children...they were only 4 & 5 years old. Both children were dead.
All these events have happened over the course of two weeks.
I grew up in life thinking that my parents were cold hearted bastards...(my dad anyway). The things they have done and said to me in my life...as a kid and even now, have hurt me in ways they dont see. I thought I had bad parents but when I turn on the News and hear about parents murdering or torturing thier children for some unexplained and sick reason....my parents dont look so bad anymore.
I wasnt confined in cage crib or hung off a balcony...I was hung by my neck, but thats different story.
These parents should be locked away and banned from EVER having more children. I dont care what thier exuse was...stress, they werent listining, you were on crack...I DONT CARE. My mother had a few mental trips as a result of a health problem right after having me....explains why Im a little fucked my self. But she didnt kill me or abuse me.
Unless we have ax murdering, nazi minded people for parents we should be thankfull that they never treated us like the children they never wanted.
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Re: Mummy Dearest
by Maranda (saboneta@aol.com)
on Jul 19, 2001 - 05:46 AM
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I've spent a lot of time thinking about why people do things like this. There is no excuse for these actions, but there are some explanations. One is that the parents brought the children into the world for reasons that had more to do with their own egos than with a desire to love and care for a child. When children are concieved out of a desire to prove one's "grownup" status, to hold onto a spouse or lover, or to have a little image of oneself running around, the child always suffers in the end.
The ONLY reason anyone should have a child is a deep desire to love and nurture another human being. Having a child is not the only way to fulful this, but children should never be born to those without that desire.
I have no children. I have felt since my own childhood that giving birth is not something I was meant to do in this life. There are plenty of other ways to make a difference in the world. Yet clueless strangers ask me all the time why I haven't reproduced. They imply that I am afraid of responsibility; that I am somehow afraid to grow up. I can't think of a more immature action than to have a child because someone thinks I should.
I think about Andrea Yates, the woman who drowned five children in the bathtub. After her fourth child, she was so badly depressed that she had to be hospitalized. Her husband still insisted that she home school the older children while caring for the new baby, and that they should have more children besides. This woman had NO support network. No family, no other parents to talk to, NOBODY. And her husband decided that the family couldn't be "true Christians" if they attended a "false" church, so she had no support from a church group either.
Where was he when she was losing it? Planning for child #6?
Every one of us-- parents or not-- should learn from this story. Maybe there's a mother in your neighborhood who could use a friend, or at least a day off. Perhaps there's a child you know whose parents don't beat him, but belittle him constantly. That child could use someone who bolsters his self-esteem. There are many ways to prevent such tragedies. Unfortunately, most of us are so stuck in our own worlds that we never notice.
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Re: Mummy Dearest
by Rae (darkness_embraced1@yahoo.com)
on Jul 19, 2001 - 07:01 AM
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As I was reading this, it sort of hit close to home. My brother and sister-in-law have four children, why they had them at all is beyond me, but they did. I guess they decided they didn't want to play house anymore and so the four children were left to fend for themselves. The oldest one is now living with me (14) and the other three with my mother. We truly all have our hands full, they bear so many emotional scars that we can never heal. The thing that I don't understand is how someone could do some of the terrible things that they do to their children. I certainly can understand the stress factor, taking in a 14 year old has been a high stress on me, but I never once have thought about doing something awful like what has been mentioned. Makes you wonder about some people.
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