Negligent parents, lawbreaking kids

[XemaSab]

Last edited Fri Aug 23, 2013, 11:09 AM - Edit history (2)

(This is a CNN article, not my personal opinion.)

A detail in the fatal shooting of 14-year-old Shaaliver Douse by a New York Police Department officer earlier this month has been stopping me from grieving his death.

The tragedy happened around 3 a.m.

Why was a 14-year-old boy out that late without his mother, Shanise Farrar, who called the shooting an assassination? Or his aunt, Quwana Barcene, who said the bloody gun police say was found near his body was part of a coverup? Where was the supervising adult who should have been with a 14-year-old boy walking the streets of New York at 3 o'clock in the morning?

"I'm not saying that he's the best one, but he's my angel," his grieving mother said.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/22/opinion/granderson-criminal-kids-responsibility/index.html?sr=sharebar_facebook

(Obviously a 14-yo is a child and his death was senseless. Blaming him in any way is not okay. I agree with much of the rest of the article, though.)

[BlueToTheBone]

2. Are you blaming the child for his parental neglect?

His death is another tragedy.

[XemaSab]

3. I agree with the article as a whole

but not the first sentence.

[BlueToTheBone]

4. Sorry, ZemaSab!

I think you should put the CNN logo in front of that first sentence. Lazy people like me might think it is a personal statement before the story.

I think it is a problem for our society as a whole. In so many small towns, there is NOTHING for the kids to do. The town councils don't like the idea of a bunch of kids hanging out without the regimen of school; so there are few teen rec centers, few things that don't cost money. As Hillary noted many years ago, "It takes a village"

My Grandmother used to keep us busy in the summer; weeding her garden, climbing trees, chasing jack rabbits (who could catch one of those) because one of her mottos was "Idle hands are the devil's workshop"

[surrealAmerican]

5. Why is it that these articles don't even bother trying to answer their own questions?

A little bit of investigative journalism might have told us exactly where the parents were, instead we get outrage with no information.