Bad Parenting Award: Naked Dad & Missing Mom
I’m not one for excessive government regulation. I’d rather the politicians and the bureaucrats keep their hands out of my pockets, eyes out of my bedroom and nose out of my garbage. But I do believe in laws, and I do believe in common sense. And I do believe that there is a point where the two must meet.
And after seeing this in the news, I am started to believe that one bit of government regulation that would make sense is requiring people to pass a “I’m not too stupid to raise kids” test.
According to local news out of Salem, Oregon, two toddlers were found alone at 1:00 a.m.
inside an car around the block from their home. Their half-naked, grease-covered father was found passed out inside an SUV parked in his garage. The mother was nowhere to be found.
Best I can figure it, the mother was late coming home, so the 2 infants borrowed the car to go look for her. The father obviously discovered that his children, car and the kids’ mother were missing, so he decided to go searching for them, but didn’t have any pants. He covered himself in grease to conceal his nakedness and must have passed out from the effort…
Does it surprise anyone that both parents have a criminal record?
TheWriteJerry @ July 25, 2007
Unfortunately, we all know what would happen if couples had to pass a test before having children… Can you say “corruption”? The politicians will argue over exactly what requirements a couple would have to meet. Republicans will argue that the couple must be married, which will cause quite a stir (even if they’re right). The testing will be run by socialist whackjobs that can’t be regulated without the regulators being socialist whackjobs as well. The personal bias of those processing the results would come into play, and soon only atheist (or Muslim) liberal couples would be allowed to have children (and be required to raise them liberal), and the worst thing is that nobody will be smart enough to notice (or do anything about it).
It’s kinda like smoking: Smoking is bad and we all know it, but we just have to put up with it because the alternative means bigger government.
Which is exactly why, OneofThem, we must make smarter choices and use more common sense - in everything we do. In this instance, we need to make smarter choices about who we have children with, under what circumstances, and understand the responsibility and sacrifices that having them requires. Children have become to much of an accessory item and/or after-thought. People need to start thinking before acting.
As for the government - I am so very against big government. But I am for having a representative government. As individuals and as a nation, we need to make smarter choices - use more forethought - when we vote instead of sitting on party lines and returning the most recognizable names to the seats of responsibility* year after year.
* - Politicians, please not I said the seat of “responsibility” not the seat of power. Politicians have become to used to thinking in terms of power instead of responsibility, and that has got to stop.
And don’t even get me started on smoking…
Wow. That’s just awesomely horrible.