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25 October 2007

Parenting tips within.

post by: mudpuppie at: 13:30 | 14 comments

Gosh I'm glad I did not have to resort to that with MY daughter. . .

Seriously, this is HORRIFYING

posted by danf 25 October | 13:36

There is something about articles like that that I find reassuring - look, hey! I might be a terrible parent, but I'm not THAT bad.

posted by mygothlaundry 25 October | 13:45

Yeah, and from a child's perspective, it sort of made me appreciate that my mother's guilt trips were just about the worst thing she could dish out.

(And I guess it goes without saying, but it's really horrible that the kid was having sex with the mom's boyfriend -- and the mom blamed the kid. People like that need a big thump in the head. Or maybe a head piercing.)

posted by mudpuppie 25 October | 13:51

It's also horrible that the paper reported the sex as if it was the daughter's fault. "She was being sexually abused by her mother's boyfriend" somehow didn't have the same oomph, or what?

Sigh.

posted by occhiblu 25 October | 13:54

Yeah, the story is awful, and the article is badly written.

I was all prepared to get snarky about the shaved head and genital piercing being attractive to a different set of boys until I got to the end.

posted by me3dia 25 October | 14:00

FGM, punk-style. What a twisted cunt of a mother.

posted by brujita 25 October | 14:26

That poor child.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 25 October | 14:36

That makes me wanna punch somebody.

posted by bunnyfire 25 October | 15:28

It's also horrible that the paper reported the sex as if it was the daughter's fault. "She was being sexually abused by her mother's boyfriend" somehow didn't have the same oomph, or what?

I think the intent of the paper was to report the mother's excuse. "She was being sexually abused by her mother's boyfriend" wouldn't have made any sense in that context or at that point in the article. Yes, that's what happened and yes that was horrible, but I think the point of writing it the way they did was to show how twisted the mother's thinking was. On the other hand, no matter what their intent was, I agree that they did a poor job of it.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 25 October | 15:34

I think the point of writing it the way they did was to show how twisted the mother's thinking was.

I don't think it even did that, though. It was presented as a journalistic fact, not really as the mother's opinion.

I don't know. I've read so many articles written by people who seem allergic to the term "sexual abuse," and I think the overall effect (though maybe not the intent) is to normalize something that really shouldn't be normalized.

posted by occhiblu 25 October | 16:47

Agreed.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 25 October | 19:02

Gah! GAH! Fucking hell! What the...GAH! (I'm so angry I've temporarily lost the ability to use my words.)

Man, my mum was a cakewalk compared to that crap.

posted by elizard 25 October | 21:30

See, I keep saying that people are no damned good, but nobody listens!

posted by dg 25 October | 22:10

WTF? How can a parent do something like this? Where do people like this come....?

Ohhhh. They are from Florida?

Say no more.

posted by chillmost 26 October | 03:46

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