@aidan,
aidan wrote:How do you compensate someone enough
for being unlucky enough to get parents who would steal their birthday money from them
OK, suppose that u gave a kid $20 and he was robbed of it by his dad who applied to his own uses
(he was building a wooden deck for the house). If u wanna, u give him another $20.
By then, the victim
KNOWS what happens if his dad finds out and deals with it acccordingly.
He 's not stupid.
(I also had that happen to me kinda backward, sorta:
another kid (maybe 11 years old) did not say that he was
ROBBED
by his parents, but he alleged that thay made him pay for his own food.
He was
working me. I know his mom fairly well, and
she is the very nicest, most caring, loving mother u coud think of.
I mentioned what he claimed to some other people who knew
the family much better than I did. One woman got a good laff out of it
and said "he 's taking u for a
ride." I knew that. I didn 't hold it against him.)
aidan wrote:- or put them on a plane alone because they drew the wrong picture and didn't like having their hair pulled?
In my opinion, the loss of a life in America, as a citizen, is of immeasurable value.
Whether he
provoked this by alarmingly intolerable behavior
or not, is an open question.
aidan wrote:Like I said - it's not funny David - and I really mean it when I say,
'Parents these days'....let's just say I am SO grateful I grew up when I did.
[Note that I don 't think that robbery is humorous. Since I indemnified the lo$$, indirectly,
I became the victim of the robbery.]
None of my adopted friends ever got sent back.
In candor, I cannot agree.
Tho I personally lived a life in tranquility and freedom as a kid,
I am aware that in earlier decades kids got subjected to violence
more ofen than now, in my opinion, based on observation,
on word of mouth and on the news.
For instance,
as recently as the 1980s,
I was seeing a young lady who had a child
who was 8 when I met him; I knew him for several years.
His mom had an official, declared
no-spanking philosophy.
It was extremely obvious to me that he meant everything
to her and she loved him very, very intensely,
but when he drove her nuts, she chased and swatted him in the face.
I don 't remember offhand, being acquainted with kids who
were adopted.
David
