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November 22, 2007 at 21:18:56

Kids Charged As Adults: The Death of the Infancy Defense

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Everybody is worried about the economic meltdown that is supposed to drive the nation into a depression. Join the crowd. Some parts of society have already been melted, fried and fricasseed. They have too few financial and emotional resources to deal with children who are emotionally needy and have often triaged their kids—saving those they can, and praying for those they can not.

As the emotional throw a ways and castaways bloat our prisons at a cost of more than $20,000 a year each, we continue to divert too many of our resources to the Prison-Industrial-Military Complex. What will happen to the children on the edge if the economy tanks and what few resources we have devoted to juvenile mental health and education disappear?

And will any of us have enough mental resources to care?

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Children are Not Responsible

The phrase most often used by teachers and counselors is now, "Your child has to accept responsibility for what he/she does". By saying this, the adults in charge abdicate responsibility. It is now the child's fault.

Kids are not responsible. It is the job of parents, teachers, coaches, and every other adult that comes in contact with a child to teach that child responsibility. Some learn it when they are five. Some learn it when they are 30.

Adults just don't want to accept their responsibility any more. So, what they do with a naturally irresponsible child is that they conspire to convince the parents that the kid needs drugs. The parents, often frustrated and not getting any real help, go along.

After the adults give the naturally irresponsible child mind altering drugs and he/she commits suicide or gets a gun and kills a few teachers and other children, the child, if he/she survives, is locked up.

The adults who shirked their responsiblity and gave the kid the drugs don't get locked up. They have emergency meetings and try to determine how they are going to apprehend the irresponsible kids that they turn into dangerous kids before the next killing occurs.

Adults are in charge and it is their responsibility when these things happen. If adults would get locked up, maybe more of them would learn to fulfill their responsibilities and the killings would stop.

by Web Smith (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 26 comments) on Friday, November 23, 2007 at 9:04:35 PM

Wanna be member of the anti-word police, author, columnist, activist and muckraker extraordinaire. Author of:Land, Legacy and Lynching: Building the Future for Black AmericaUrban Asylum: Politics, Lunatics and the Refrigerator Woman Contributing editor: (works in progress)Red, Black, Brown & Green: Ethnic People and the Move to Economic Self-Suficiency Screaming Doors (novel) Screaming Doors
M. DavisWanna be member of the anti-word police, author, columnist, activist and muckraker extraordinaire. Author of:Land, Legacy and Lynching: Building the Future for Black AmericaUrban Asylum: Politics, Lunatics and the Refrigerator Woman Contributing editor: (works in progress)Red, Black, Brown & Green: Ethnic People and the Move to Economic Self-Suficiency Screaming Doors (novel) Screaming Doors

!Amen

You are oh so right. It kills me when I am on the city bus to hear parents talking to children as if they are talking to another adult: either berating the kid for being a kid, getting p'd at the child because they have to deal with the child rather than do their own thang, or, as you said, not allowing the child to be a child and grow from learning. If we transfer all of the responsibility for the child's behavior to the child, then we are absolved, right?

I have heard so many people talk about their own sons being "bad", when all the kid is doing is being a naturally curious, rambnctious boy--whose parents have no time or patience to "train him up".

by M. Davis (43 articles, 2 quicklinks, 14 diaries, 149 comments) on Friday, November 23, 2007 at 9:48:50 PM

Young retired yank of 59 living in the highlands o Scotland. Been out of the old country for 20 some years now. I'm with the Dali Lama, kindness is the only thing that will work. LOVE cycling on or off road. My wife is a wonderful girl from Manchester England.We're haven fun.
davyYoung retired yank of 59 living in the highlands o Scotland. Been out of the old country for 20 some years now. I'm with the Dali Lama, kindness is the only thing that will work. LOVE cycling on or off road. My wife is a wonderful girl from Manchester England.We're haven fun.

turning an oil tanker with a row boat

The blind leading the blind, same as it ever was. How does one open the heart of America? When will we see that ONLY compassion and kindness leads to happiness. OR How can a man get out of jail until he realizes he's in jail?

by davy (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 240 comments) on Saturday, November 24, 2007 at 4:52:27 AM