Cops now have revealed that Murphy was caught in a troubling new trend: good girls recruited by neighborhood gangs into lives of violence, where carrying weapons and committing crimes is as commonplace as shooting a free throw.
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Oh, please. Makes it sound like it was against her will.
Kids EVERYWHERE, cities, burbs, country, wherever, WILL behave if there are interested parents, preferably two. Fatherless boys AND girls have trouble wherever they happen to be, in my opinion. Contrary to what Murphy Brown and the man-hating libbers say, fathers are ESSENTIAL.
Mothers can't do it by themselves, usually; it takes two, as God planned. Divorce has MUCH to do with fractured families. Divorce-remarry-divorce-remarry = kids tossed from pillar to post: fodder for trouble, drugs, etc.
Also, there were just as many extended families in city neighborhoods as there were anywhere else. And, sadly, there are just as FEW extended families now in cities, burbs and small towns, just by the nature of the fractured, transient American families.
In my urban neighborhood I was known and taken care of by any stay-at-home mother. My father was ill and worked only when he could. So my mother worked. I was taken care of by a stay-at-home neighborhood lady named Daisy.
Am I wrong?