CynthiaWVirginia
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From: West Virginia, USA
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I live in WV now, one of the poorest states in the union. Most areas don't have public transportation and walking to a grocery store is impossible, so...unlike in big cities, hitch hiking is quite common. Mothers having to let their six year old kids run wild all over town while the welfare sends them off to work at McDonalds is quite common.
Small towns where everybody knows each other often carries with it a false sense of security, encouraged/forced by everyone. They might report you to DHHR if you seem to be too controlling, too paranoid over your kid, restraining his or her freedom and stunting their social growth. Won't let a six year old walk several blocks to the bus stop alone? Won't let them "go outside and play" with the other kids all over town, exploring every nook and cranny, creek, abandoned building, going inside anyone's home who offers a dollar to wash their dog? Poor and won't let church volunteers take your kid clothing shopping??? These are clear cases of "child abuse" in my area, and grounded in fact or not, the welfare will investigate you if someone calls in a report.
It's almost 50 year old people like me who's made it easier for folks 40, 30, and in their 20's to be more "paranoid" over their child's welfare...enough to use leashes, etc.
I dislike the "holier than thou" attitude that someone's kid didn't get molested because they were vigilant enough. In defense of my mother, a working mother cannot possibly be vigilant enough, simply because for most of her kid's day, she's NOT THERE. Anyone's kid can be a victim if a patient, very skilled at hunting, pedophile who focuses their attention on that family and their child. Some are capable of earning a family's trust so much...that they would believe their kid is a liar and attention whore for speaking one word against him. A common way a pedophile gets in good with the family...is to become a boyfriend or new husband of the mother. Many women I've known over the years have brought a potential new boyfriend home to f*ck after their first or second date, probably with less hours of face time than this mother who let this "nice man" take them shopping. Yay for the "paranoid" mothers out there who can watch their children closely enough that most pedophiles will give up and go looking for easier prey.
Someone's child is being used though...as long as pedophiles are "punished" or "cured" and sent back out into the world to continue their hunting.
Yeah, I'm bitter over the wrist slapping for offenders. There is a pedo in my family who is still alive. He was molesting boys and girls for 20 something years (starting around 14 years old when he started babysitting a next door neighbor's little boy) before he was caught and spent some time in jail for molesting (that's such a sanitized, polite word for what really happens) his own toddlers. Yanno what? All of the family resents like hell that he was ever let out of prison; he's a truck driver and has been out of jail for a good seven years now. He hasn't remarried, so he can breed and produce a new batch of toddlers to molest, and he hasn't BEEN CAUGHT messing with other people's kids since he's regained his freedom.
< Message edited by CynthiaWVirginia -- 6/22/2013 6:15:45 PM >
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RE: Dont let a stranger have your kid at wal mart! - 
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