Posted on 10/27/2013 6:36:14 AM PDT by Loyalist
Quite frankly, I find the alcohol laws in this country totally bizarre.
I’m second generation immanent, Italian. My grandfathers, both, when we turned 12, started giving us watered down wine at dinner. A rational approach. Not much, but enough that by the end of the summer, it wasn’t a big deal.
This continued once we got home. Mom & dad, rightfully to me, felt is was MUCH better to learn how to drink responsibly at home BEFORE sending us out in to the wild.
Did I get drunk on occasion... Yes. Did I make it a habit, NO! I was usually the designated driver once my friends got to be 15 - 16 and they started binge drinking.
Get some sanity folks. Teach your kids how to drink, if your beliefs allow it, or quit whining when they come home smashed!
She’s now working to support herself.
Off hand, I’d say mission accomplished.
Oddly enough, my daughter was aware of a similar situation at her school, a girl had been adopted from Russia, she was very cute but a dickens. Over Christmas break one year the parents sent her back to see what her options were. She would call from Russia drunk. She did come back but and now goes to college already, about 2 years ahead of time.
Interesting discipline, there. “You behave or we’ll send you to Siberia!”
Hopefully, once back in the US, some kindly lawyer will support her suing the pluperfect hell out of her adoptive parents for child abuse and reckless endangerment.
The story is two democrats are running for governor in LIBERAL MARYLAND, one an Obama approved lib while the other is a bit more business friendly so he is getting the full ‘treatment” to pave the way for the other.
A tradition in Maryland is senior week where graduating HS seniors go to the nearby atlantic beaches. This slimeball dem claims he was just checking in with his son. He claims it was not his responsibility to break up the party. Besides, there seems to have been some girls he liked taking pic of.
In my state, and several others, parents can serve alcohol to their minor children in the home.
Psychotic parents... If her friends want to get her out they need to bribe the local officials with cash. The only way to get cash to her is by trusted friends carrying it - any ‘official’ who finds it will keep it.
So they basically sent her to a stranger in Russia and left her there.
Sounds more like they were just to cowardly to deal with the situation. In a just world, they would be charged for child abandonment as well.
Too bad Hillary’s parents didn’t do this...
I have a friend whose parents sent her back to their home country to live with relatives a couple years as a teen, because she was out of control. Said it was the best thing that could have happened to her.
Wouldn’t a flight to Detroit be cheaper?
I suspected as much.
This is a terrific business opportunity.
“American Teenager Correction Facility”, Novosibirsk, Russia. $5000/week, 13 week minimum stay. Results guaranteed or your money back.
I like the way you think! :)
On the other hand, she is now working and studying — maybe she is finally learning responsibility.
“Sofia now lives at a hotel, where she works 60 hours a week. She uses her wages to fund her studies. “
And what if she stayed here, she could be dead of a drug overdose by now — obviously the parents couldn’t control her.
So it is Siberia but...she's Russian. She'll learn to live with the cold.
Mommy will be in the U.S. looking for another scam. She doesn't sound like anything but a cheap opportunist herself.
Maybe the daughter was the apple who didn't fall far from the tree.
Good. Hopefully, lesson learned but probably won't forgive her mama until her own kids are 15.
I wasn't talking about what she may have learned, but how she arrived.
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And what if she stayed here, she could be dead of a drug overdose by now
Conversely, she could not be 'dead of a drug overdose by now', so the conjecture has no relevance.
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obviously the parents couldn’t control her.
Sending a minor to a legal stranger was more a cop out than a 'solution'. Did they call the cops when she was acting like a hellion and have her detained for a day or so, or would that have been to embarrassing?
Did they get right back in her face when she bucked up to them, or did they just shrug it off about how she 'acted out'? Did they seek professional help at all?
The story is admittedly short of facts, but I never once considered sending either of my twin girls back to their biological father to another STATE (much less half a world away) no matter how difficult they became.
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IMHO, the parents are supposed to be the adults in the situation. All they did was teach her that people who become 'too much trouble' are disposable.
Sofia Roberts
We should do the same with pedophiles.
More on this story here w/pictures:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2473859/US-teen-sent-live-Siberia-mother-begs-come-home.html
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