What the fucking hell is wrong with some parents???

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Ok, my son has this friend steven, who is a pretty nice kids. His parents are never home, they don't seem to ever care where he is. Now, it is 9 pm at night, he called his mom at 7 to come pick him up, she said she would, she was out with some friends. There is no one at his house and she has not called back and she has not came by. I never let my kids have friends stay over on a school night, but there is no way in fucking hell I'm letting a little 11 yr old walk three blocks in the dark to an empty house. Now, I might not be the greatest parent in the world, Im sure I yell at my kids when I shouldn't and buy them too much shit, but I know exactly where my kids are every hour of every day. If they go to the library or arcade, they have to call me when they get there, every hour, and before they leave, because that is what a parent does. I do not understand parents who do not care where there kids are. What if I had let him walk home and he had been kidnapped or raped? Fucking people make me sick.
 
gah, what an ignorant mother that is. i would have some words with her if i were you. i feel really bad for that little boy. i believe you told me about this before, and hell, it pisses me off more now. its very good of you to let him stay.
 
I don't know, DG. It's amazing how many really don't worry. When my daughter wants to spend the night at a friends house when she first meets new friends, I make it a point to meet and talk to the parents first. Many friends she had over had parents that just said yes without calling me.

Also, when she schedules ANYthing with friends, I talk to parents. I never leave it up to her to make plans. I want to make sure parents are expecting and have approved things first. Yet, again, many don't. I think it's because I was raised the way I'm raising my daughter. I don't know...
 
Unfortunately let's hope the kid doesn't suffer because of her neglect on her part, and only then she will probably understand what she did wrong.

I don't understand parents who just forget or don't bother trying to find out where they are, especially at that age.
Hell, I'm 17 and I still have to check in with my dad when I go to a place, and then he knows where I am, and he makes sure I'm there.
 
DG, people like that should be killed, and their children given into more capable parentage.
My parents made some serious mistakes, but those mistakes don't include negligence and stupidity of that order.
 
My parents always knew where I was because I had nowhere to go.

The worst that was going to happen to me was that I'd get run over by a rampaging cow or something.
 
It was during the time I lived out in the middle of nowhere that I was away from home the most.. Riding my bike the two or three miles into town, hiking around the cornfields and forests near my house... There was a lot to do and a lot of interesting locations to explore.
Out in the country, there really isn't much to do that will get you in any serious trouble unless you are trying to... Like burning down somebody's barn (done that, with fireworkss no less).
 
I don't want to be the odd one out here, but in some ways I disagree with most of the above statements. I think it's because I'm a country boy and our little town was pretty safe, naive almost, but I can't help but feel like there is a fine line between caring and smothering (as much as there is a fine line between respecting independence and being negligent) and it's been crossed a couple of times in my humble, worthless opinion. For example, finding out where your kid is going, what time they expect to be back, and who they're going with seems like a reasonable amount of parental probing IMO. Calling them if they're late home, fine. But every hour? I dunno, what do I know? I don't have any kids of my own, so I'm going on pure speculation. No doubt I'd be exactly the same if I had kids :)

PS I agree that the original story is an example of neglect on the parents' part. If you're going to go out for the evening at least make sure your kid can get home safe.
 
Well here's the thing, some parents are evil incarnates who have, in hopes of expanding hell, have stolen away with lost and confused souls. That they might fuck up Earth in ways that are unpredictably bad and horrifying because of problems that the evil incarnates would cause in the reborn lost soul's life.
 
How old are his parents? My sister does the same thing sometimes. Where she never really got to live her life like she wanted because she had my nephew too young. So from time to time she'd just go out and not worry about it.
I see this a lot with high school kids who get pregnant also. They don't really change their lives to accomodate having a child and are extremely selfish.
 
The above is a glaring example of parental ignorace, and I would agree, but I'm gonna go out on a limb with Hannibal here.

Look, I've grown up in a small city, a city nonetheless, and my rules as a teenager are very simple:

1. Tell me where you're going.
2. Tell me when you're getting back.
3. Who's going to be there?
4. Call if you are late home.

Thats it. Really. Now having them call every hour, I think thats a little much....to the point where the kid is going to get really tired of it. Now I'm not a parent, so I'm sure someone here is going to say "You don't have a kid so STFU N0UB!!11!1!one!" but seriously, let the kid go have fun, and just make sure they get back. Don't interrupt their plans..

Now on the other hand, be a good parent, cause if you aren't, the child does have the option of legal emancipation, which my friend Tyler did a while back, and well...hes not doing too well. They left him at home for a week, didn't tell him where they went, and he had no way of contacting them. That's neglegience(sp?)
 
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