Reply #125: I Can Smile... [View All]

[maggiegault]

...at the original post and agree with a lot of it, primarily about today's kids being overindulged, pampered little brats with a mindboggling sense of self-importance and entitlement.

Then again, my mother was (is) a raging alcoholic who beat the s**t out of her three kids on a daily basis. This was in the 1970s/early 80s. There were many people who knew, because my mother is a drunk and doesn't care who hears her tirades and violence. In fact, she enjoyed the spectacle she made of herself. But no one said anything, no one did anything, and no one intervened: not neighbors, not family, not friends, not school officials, no one. Yet they all saw the bruises.