And the Parent of the Year Award Goes to…

zn wrote:

There’s a ton of this stuff.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/10/us/post-election-hate-crimes-and-fears-trnd/

I’m not sure how that stuff is similar to the child abuse I just posted.

I mean, c’mon. That poor kid. Imagine how terrified he was. All that shithead mother had to do was sit him down and rationally explain to him what it is about Trump that she finds distasteful, and why he shouldn’t endorse him. But nah. Throw him out on the streets where he likely felt that he would never again see his family, simply because he didn’t have the intellectual or emotional development to distinguish between popularity and policy. He said he would have voted for Trump because he “saw him on TV before.” For that, he gets to be completely frightened and disowned (he thought) by his own mother.

Shithead of the highest order.
And I’ll say it again. Don’t involve your fucking children in your ‘adult’ issues.

zn wrote:

On a more personal level, I know of several cases where families are essentially divided by this and it is leading to remarkably powerful emotional conflict. Members of families vowing never to speak to one another again, in public.

As do I.

But there is zero excuse for an adult taking a ‘charged moment’ out on a child. If you don’t possess the wherewithal to put your children first – especially when they don’t know what they did – then don’t have children. You’re not ready, you’re not capable, and you’re not qualified. That kid was actually proud to bring his assignment home and share it with his mother. He probably felt like he was inching towards adulthood by participating in adult things. For that, he gets to pack his shit and leave. Eight years old, zn. Eight. I understand what you’re saying on a broad scale, but this is indefensible.