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Almost as sad as her death is the life this poor child had. I wouldn't recognize a "bong" if there was one on my coffee table!
Evelyn was born when her mother was 16. Her father has a lot to answer for, to his own conscience if not to the law. And both sets of grandparents should have been more responsible regarding the behavior of their minor children, as well.
Tragedies like this are preventable; it's so frustrating!
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But ... but ... but she was a single mom! The moms are ALWAYS honest, they ALWAYS have the best interests of their children at heart, they are ALWAYS the victims of thoughtless, irresponsible deadbeat dads, even ones who pay their child support! NATURALLY the DHS believed Noel and not the dad!
*sigh* You know, everytime I read something about a divorced dad going off his rocker and kidnapping his kids and killing himself and them, all I can think is: why is anyone surprised, except that it doesn't happen more often?
Our society has disenfranchised men completely from the role of fatherhood except at the mercy off the mother of the child. No wonder teenage boys are so angry and hostile against females. And no wonder so many youngsters -- whether they're children like Evelyn or adolescent gang-bangers -- die violent deaths.
We talk about terrorism and Katrina and a bad educational system, but in my mind, this is the single most dangerous threat to America today -- the legal disenfranchising of fatherhood through the family law courts and child care services that nearly always enable a single mom to regard the kids as her kids, to operate supposedly "shared" custody as "her way or the highway," and to enjoy exclusively the trust of DHS, while the father of her kids is unbelieved. It's disgusting how many children and men suffer broken hearts because of a screwed up system that lets women flaunt the worst of feminine nature, such as this mother of Evelyn, who takes a live-in boyfriend while raising a child. In my book, that alone should have had DHS hustling to get the little girl to her real dad.
I hope this isn't a case of the system/DHS letting the child down. I also hope that her mom and/or her boyfriend didn't kill her. To go through what this child did, let alone at the hands of someone who was suposed to be trustworthy, would be even more horrible. I pray that justice is done.