Flagrant Parental Abdication
When parents abandon diligent responsibility for the welfare of their children, it does represent as child abuse. Society doesn't see it that way, however. Instead, parents who present their children with gifts that are a potential danger to them, are thought to be loving, indulgent parents. And most certainly the children accept it in this manner. That their caring, emotionally supportive parents assent to gift them with the latest that mobile technology offers because they are loved.
Parents and care-givers whose attention span is all too often challenged beyond adequate response, later lamenting the loss of infants and young children for whom the cool water of an accessible backyard pool was simply irresistible. Parents who indulgently give their very young children motorized vehicles to dash about with, on their rural property.
And then the papers are rife with sad stories of under-age children dying in snowmobile accidents because they were too immature to properly drive the vehicles. Stories replete with sorrowful parents describing the adventurous nature of their dead children. Lingering on the fun-loving spirit of a lost child.
In the summer, it is all-terrain-vehicles in rural areas given to children to amuse themselves with. Children who lack the physical strength, manual dexterity, spatial understanding, and realization of the danger that they may be placing themselves in with uncontrolled speed, and who end up in hospital emergency wards.
Worse, those like the 8-year-old girl crushed to death in Cheneville, Quebec, under an ATV when the vehicle she or her 7-year-old sister was driving flipped.
What is wrong with these people? They have children and with parenting they have the solemn obligation to mentor and nourish and cherish their children, not place them directly in harm's way, feeling they are privileging their children by hurrying them into situations they cannot control.
Where is their common sense, in being alert and capable of visualizing danger to their children?
Parents and care-givers whose attention span is all too often challenged beyond adequate response, later lamenting the loss of infants and young children for whom the cool water of an accessible backyard pool was simply irresistible. Parents who indulgently give their very young children motorized vehicles to dash about with, on their rural property.
And then the papers are rife with sad stories of under-age children dying in snowmobile accidents because they were too immature to properly drive the vehicles. Stories replete with sorrowful parents describing the adventurous nature of their dead children. Lingering on the fun-loving spirit of a lost child.
In the summer, it is all-terrain-vehicles in rural areas given to children to amuse themselves with. Children who lack the physical strength, manual dexterity, spatial understanding, and realization of the danger that they may be placing themselves in with uncontrolled speed, and who end up in hospital emergency wards.
Worse, those like the 8-year-old girl crushed to death in Cheneville, Quebec, under an ATV when the vehicle she or her 7-year-old sister was driving flipped.
What is wrong with these people? They have children and with parenting they have the solemn obligation to mentor and nourish and cherish their children, not place them directly in harm's way, feeling they are privileging their children by hurrying them into situations they cannot control.
Where is their common sense, in being alert and capable of visualizing danger to their children?
Labels: Family, societal failures
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