GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works to News@lemmy.world · 13 hours agoWhen Mothers Get Arrested for Mothering. Raising independent kids shouldn’t be this hard.www.theatlantic.comexternal-linkmessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up1104arrow-down12
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minus-squareryven@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down1·9 hours agoI feel like I am in a Monty Python sketch right now. She “contributed to delinquency” because he could have gotten in trouble that he didn’t get into if things had gone entirely differently?
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down21·9 hours agoYes. The government decided that children that young should be supervised. She failed to provide that supervision. The child coming back safe that time doesn’t count- it’s a dangerous world.
minus-squareryven@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·edit-29 hours agoBut they didn’t charge her with endangering him, that’s a different thing. Edit to add: And I suspect they didn’t because he was, self evidently, not in danger. So I remain confused about why this became an entire affair.
minus-squaredermanus@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 hours agoBecause prosecutors are elected in the US, they do all kinds of stupid things.
minus-squaredermanus@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·9 hours ago The government decided that children that young should be supervised. And we all know that the government is always just and never gets it wrong.
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down5·8 hours agodid I say the government was right? the good news here is that, as part of that government by means of voting, you can go and change yours.
I feel like I am in a Monty Python sketch right now. She “contributed to delinquency” because he could have gotten in trouble that he didn’t get into if things had gone entirely differently?
Yes.
The government decided that children that young should be supervised. She failed to provide that supervision.
The child coming back safe that time doesn’t count- it’s a dangerous world.
But they didn’t charge her with endangering him, that’s a different thing.
Edit to add: And I suspect they didn’t because he was, self evidently, not in danger. So I remain confused about why this became an entire affair.
Because prosecutors are elected in the US, they do all kinds of stupid things.
And we all know that the government is always just and never gets it wrong.
did I say the government was right?
the good news here is that, as part of that government by means of voting, you can go and change yours.