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originally posted by: Fisherr
Hope this is what she is told.
originally posted by: Dalamax
Because they are nut job eugenics enthusiast war mongering hypocrites?
a reply to: HarryJoy
originally posted by: ketsuko
originally posted by: SeaWorthy
a reply to: pravdaseeker
To many of these stories, that is why I say early abortion is better than babies suffering at the hands of teen parents in many cases, unwanted, unloved, hurt and abused. That creates a whole new generation of angry mentally unstable people.
Correction.
Personal responsibility to have avoided pregnancy in the first place was the best strategy. With the abortion route, the little girl is murdered either way.
originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
On the one hand, you have a woman who wantonly abandoned her child, neglected it and ultimately killed the poor baby simply due to her own selfishness and vanity.
originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
a reply to: pravdaseeker
I think your example only further amplifies the need for swift and furious justice on this murderess. Here's why...
When I was a kid my parents sold our house to a very nice younger couple. It was a very nice home in a very upscale area. They had tried for years to have children but were unable to. Then, they tried for years to adopt. The family was finally successful in adopting an infant baby boy. We had moved far away, but my best friend who lived across the street became good friends with the family and often babysat their little boy. One day the mother received a phone call. The boy was two then. In the brief time she was on the phone their adopted son slipped out the back door and drowned in the built-in pool in the back yard. Prior to this the mother had been a doting parent whose entire world revolved around their adopted son. The tragedy destroyed her. It's a truly tragic story.
Now, the reason I tell this story is as a counterpoint to your assertion that the woman in the OP should not be punished, and that she will have ample time to punish herself in the end. While it may seem counter-intuitive because my story seems to support what you are suggesting, the two women could not be more different.
On the one hand, you have a woman who wantonly abandoned her child, neglected it and ultimately killed the poor baby simply due to her own selfishness and vanity. And on the other hand, you have a woman who tried for nearly a decade to conceive and/or adopt a child, a person who was a model mother, and she tragically loses the child to a single moment of inattention. So, was the woman who took her eyes off her child for just one moment any less guilty than the one who abandoned her child for 6 days of partying? I'll leave that for you and others to decide. To find the real answer, we'll need to look deeper.
Unfortunately, in order to bring the matter into the true light of day we have to bring another couple of variables into the discussion, and these are the topics of abortion and adoption. I don't really have a strong opinion on abortion one way or the other (I'm sorry, but I just don't). I do, however, have a pretty strong opinion on adoption, and that opinion is that parents who wish to adopt a child are put through almost unimaginable scrutiny and pain when they attempt to adopt. For what? What purpose does this serve? In theory, it vettes out the prospective parents to not be parents like the ones who abandon their precious gift of life for 6 days of partying. However, in practice, it does absolutely nothing to ensure that parents who have a natural born child don't abandon their child for 6 days of partying. And, herein lies the problem, the injustice. And it is here where justice needs to be served, both swiftly and with great vengeance. Because, if it is not, then the 'system' has undermined any possible justification it has for the scrutiny and pain it puts prospective adoptive parents through.
I am not suggesting here that prospective adoptive parents should not have to undergo some sort of fitness test for being a parent, that's not the point. What I am demanding though is, neglectful parents who willfully allow grave harm or death to come to their natural born children, under their care and custody, should be punished with a vengeance like no other. Children are the single biggest responsibility a person can ever possibly have.
Oh, and one final thought; if you were to ask my own personal opinion of who, between the two women discussed above, was more guilty? My answer would be...neither. They are both equally guilty. It's the harsh reality between life and death.