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The opposite of a 'Tiger Mother': leaving your children behind
Yahoo Shine ^ | 3/4/11 | Lylhah Alphonse

Posted on 03/04/2011 4:09:10 PM PST by DemforBush

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Rahna Reiko Rizzuto says that she never wanted to be a mother.

"I had this idea that motherhood was this really all-encompassing thing,"

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...when her children came to visit, she had an epiphany: She didn't want to be a full-time mother anymore. When she returned to New York, she ended her 20-year marriage and chose not to be her kids' custodial parent.

(Excerpt) Read more at shine.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: children; chinesemothers; divorce; neglect; tigermother
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I'd be interested to hear parent FReeper's take on this story. I'm a bachelor, so I don't pretend to be an expert on children or raising them. But this woman's actions just seem utterly bizarre to me.
1 posted on 03/04/2011 4:09:13 PM PST by DemforBush
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To: DemforBush

worthless POS and her kids will know it


2 posted on 03/04/2011 4:11:08 PM PST by Mr. K (Job #1 is to DEFUND THE LEFT~!!!!)
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To: DemforBush

What’s to tell? She is allowing her children to reach their full potential by not being their full time mother.
No love.
No guidance.
No involvement.
No boundaries.
No values.
It is all about her and reaching her potential. At least that is what she, and Yahoo are promoting. Self actualization at the cost of all else. I think if she could have come to this realization earlier she would have left them exposed on a rocky cliff when they were born.

She almost a perfect liberal. She is a perfect monster.


3 posted on 03/04/2011 4:15:16 PM PST by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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To: DemforBush
"In fact, their relationship not only survived her leaving, but "has improved.""

I believe it. The less they see of her the better their lives will be.

4 posted on 03/04/2011 4:15:45 PM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: IrishCatholic

Aww, she had to leave her kids to find them.

Sounds like a loving mom to me....NOT!

Just what the he!! does that mean, anyway?

I hope she dies a lonely old spinster.


5 posted on 03/04/2011 4:17:59 PM PST by derllak
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To: DemforBush

It is very simple, really, she is what is wrong with people today. totally self-involved, selfish, shallow and completely lacking any contribution to her world. The children she has thrown away will be, hopefully, better off with their father. When she reaches her “golden” years she will face a very bleak and lonely existence. Worthless she is and will stay. I feel sorry for her but not her children, they are the key to her future and she has swept it out of mind and thought, exactly what they will do her when she, one day, may need them.


6 posted on 03/04/2011 4:17:59 PM PST by Rockiette (Democrats are not intelligent)
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To: DemforBush

She’s a selfish, self absorbed creatin, who is lying to herself if she really thinks she has a good relationship with her kids.

The most I can say for her is, at least she didn’t kill them. But she destroyed their childhoods.


7 posted on 03/04/2011 4:18:11 PM PST by mockingbyrd
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To: DemforBush

Adults don’t always do what they want.


8 posted on 03/04/2011 4:19:40 PM PST by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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To: DemforBush

Adults don’t always do what they want.


9 posted on 03/04/2011 4:19:40 PM PST by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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To: DemforBush

There are certain mammals who leave their young to fend for themselves. Leftists are among these under-evolved beasts. They are not people.


10 posted on 03/04/2011 4:20:22 PM PST by Soothesayer (smallpox is not a person)
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To: DemforBush
What is really sickening here is that this woman is going to be a feminist hero…sold as a role model for the modern woman.
11 posted on 03/04/2011 4:23:03 PM PST by cartan
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To: DemforBush

Why did you except away the fact the kids were 6 and 3? That was a bad thing to leave out. Or are you just trying to tease people to the website?


12 posted on 03/04/2011 4:23:41 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (You CAN get blood from a stone, if you throw it hard enough.)
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To: DemforBush

This is societry today. We are the “me” generations. It’s all about us and our feelings. The kids are just there to hang out and make us feel better about ourselves, or if they don’t, then screw ‘em ,they can raise themselves.
As long as I’m happy.
Makes me want to scream, holler, and puke.


13 posted on 03/04/2011 4:24:30 PM PST by vpintheak (Democrats: Robbing humans of their dignity 1 law at a time)
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To: Cyber Liberty

except = excerpt


14 posted on 03/04/2011 4:26:03 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (You CAN get blood from a stone, if you throw it hard enough.)
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To: DemforBush; Bulwyf; null and void

You can’t parent a child by merely “going to performances and every game”
It’s more involved, it entails giving of yourself for years. Yeah, it’s work, but if you don’t want to do it, don’t procreate.
This is for fathers as well as mothers. I honor the parents that stick with the kid(s)


15 posted on 03/04/2011 4:28:55 PM PST by Shimmer1 (When life hands you lemons, ask for tequila and salt.)
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To: DemforBush; Bulwyf; null and void

You can’t parent a child by merely “going to performances and every game”
It’s more involved, it entails giving of yourself for years. Yeah, it’s work, but if you don’t want to do it, don’t procreate.
This is for fathers as well as mothers. I honor the parents that stick with the kid(s)


16 posted on 03/04/2011 4:29:03 PM PST by Shimmer1 (When life hands you lemons, ask for tequila and salt.)
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To: DemforBush

I will never get this. I have 4 adult children and 4 animals and my animals
get more attention I would suspect, then the author gives he kids. Ask her
in 20 years if she made the right decision. Then ask the kids.


17 posted on 03/04/2011 4:30:54 PM PST by marygam ((Obama is not a messiah, wake up folks!))
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To: Cyber Liberty

Just trying to keep the excerpts within ‘fair use’ lengths, that’s all. I’d have preferred to post the whole story, but I’d hate to see Yahoo start going the way of some other sources that won’t let us post anymore.


18 posted on 03/04/2011 4:43:33 PM PST by DemforBush (Insert pithy catchphrase here)
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To: Rockiette

She is a selfish naccistic bi—h. I had one like that for a mother. My grandparents saved my brother and I.

When our mom died we both did the same thing, it was just another day and we went to work.


19 posted on 03/04/2011 4:53:45 PM PST by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, Iconoclast: THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR.)
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To: DemforBush

This is nothing new, it’s been done for ages ... one or both parents leaving their kids ... either physically or emotionally, behind.

This woman is trying to make a buck off of an age-old phenomenon.


20 posted on 03/04/2011 5:03:32 PM PST by Lorianne (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ___ George Orwell)
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