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originally posted by: kaylaluv
a reply to: DBCowboy
What should happen in the case of the parent who locks their son up in a room with no food for 2 years?
Who should step in when parents feed their kids nothing but cheetos and mountain dew?
Who should step in when parents who are gang members raise their kids to be future gang members?
Who should step in when parents who are high on drugs repeatedly rape then strangle their 12-year-old daughter?
Someone has to take responsibility when the parents won't.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
originally posted by: kaylaluv
a reply to: DBCowboy
So you conflate feeding your child Mountain Dew with raping them.
Why not just cut to the chase and make Mountain Dew and illegal substance. That way we don't have to hurt our brains deciding the difference between rape and Mountain Dew?
originally posted by: kaylaluv
originally posted by: DBCowboy
No one. Nunya business.
Not allowing children to have access to proper food should be someone's business. If the parent isn't taking responsibility for their children, someone needs to.
originally posted by: kaylaluv
originally posted by: DBCowboy
No one. Nunya business.
Not allowing children to have access to proper food should be someone's business. If the parent isn't taking responsibility for their children, someone needs to.
originally posted by: kaylaluv
a reply to: DanDanDat
Adults can make the (stupid) decision to drink all the Mountain Dew they want. Children aren't old enough to make that decision yet.
Have you heard about the Appalachian infants who are fed Mountain Dew from a bottle instead of milk? Have you heard of the horrible teeth problems they have as young adults as a result (not to mention all the other health problems)? Those babies didn't have a choice - they had to drink what their parents gave them. Bad nutrition affects not only the body, it affects the mind. Children have trouble learning when they don't have proper nutrition. When they have trouble learning, they have trouble getting jobs, which hurts our economy. So yes, we are all affected by bad parenting.
originally posted by: kaylaluv
originally posted by: DBCowboy
originally posted by: kaylaluv
a reply to: DBCowboy
Who makes and enforces the laws?
The state.
SO you are for every state and federal law.
Are you against every state and federal law?
Sometimes the state has to step in when people do bad things.