So you’re behind the bar, watching the shadows darken the doorway and head for the counter top, just waiting for the clock to grind the evening down so you can clear out the regulars and call it a night. As you pour the drinks, you make chit chat, playing interested in the service of the tip jar. Sob stories. Boasts. The usual. Then one lady, noticeably sloppy, happens to mention she left her one- and two-year-olds home alone so she could guzzle in public.
What do you do?
This article appears in Sep 21-27, 2011.
UNBELIEVEABLE! and what is scarey is childrens services will give those poor kids right back to her! motherhood is a priviledge not a right! she needs to prove herself and show she deserves to have her children before she ever gets them back.
I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE CALLED THE POLICE TO. WHAT IF THEY WERE A FIRE AND THE BABIES WERE KILLED. OR IF SOMEONE BROKE IN . YOU NEVER KNOW WHT COULD HAVE HAPPENED YOU KNOW. THERES PEOPLE THAT CAN’T HAVE CHILDREN, AND THE ONES WHO CAN ABUSE THE ONES THEY GOT. IT’S A SHAME.
im going to say this opens the door in a lot of ways. it shows that SOME women are not good parents and who knows maybe the father would be the better parent. This opens the door in another way. Just because you give birth to a child or multiple children doesnt make you the best parent, but because you carried the child for 9 months (give or take) no matter what you are given custody of that child. There is no clause that says the options are the child can live with the mother or father after one proves to be the better parent, it goes strait to the women even though she doesnt care and doesnt want the child but now learns its a grade A paycheck. the father in the background that actually wants to be a parent and raise the child the best way possible has no rights and has no say so, why is that? we helped make that child 50/50 just like she did. Just like the post above me said Motherhood is a PRIVILEGE what about FATHERHOOD? why do guys always get the short end of the stick when does the Fathers actually get a say so. especially when they want to be a parent
As sincere as your sentiments were intended to be Matthew Fowler, you seem to be stretching as it relates to this story. Nothing in the article states anything about the father. We don’t know if he’s around, we don’t know if he was working, we don’t know if he wants to take custody. Fact of the matter is though, that while you may feel it’s 50/50 in producing the child, it’s not. Because women carry the baby for 9 months, it gives them an edge in many levels as it pertains to custody. You are correct in that men can be an equally effective parent, but in this case, it just doesn’t apply. Perhaps you have a situation in which you feel you are a better parent than your child’s mother and needed to vent.