SandTea wrote:I think that was about a different shitty abusive parent in a different thread?
I do have to agree that the sister, "R" something, doesn't come off as a good home either. I will give her the fact that she didn't abuse 13 children so she is (probably) not that bad. The sister telling reporters about how the mother decided on not going to church and having sex a bunch also influenced my position towards this stance.
Meh, I wouldn't stand in that corner about the woman TBH. I mean she was just telling people what happened and to me pointing out the change in someone's behaviour i.e. stopping going to church when that had been a thing before, is a relevant detail to mention, particularly the nugget about her not trusting churches anymore, which has an element of conspiritorial thinking to it. In the aftermath of people being revealed to be heinous criminals, when people come a knocking to find out details, these are the kind of things a person would say to my mind.
Plus the notion they were to some degree neglecting their parental responsibilities to focus on their sex lives by having the older kids look after the younger ones, is also something worth mentioning. I mean there's nothing wrong with having older siblings baby-sitting the younger ones, but ... why you gotta be telling your sister about your fucking habits? Just say the older kids are doing a bit of baby-sitting.
Anywho, my point is basically these are tidbits that when someone asks 'well was there anything odd about them?' or 'did you notice any changes in their behaviour?' that are to me reasonable to mention. But now that cameras are being pointed at this lady, everything SHE says is going to be put under a microscope too, in a "I wonder what she meant by that?" kind of way, and I'm guessing she aint no expert in media relations herself.
Plus I hardly think there's anything anti-not going to church or anti-sex bunch having inherant from the statement I read in and of itself.
And in general, I'm never going to think bad of someone just because they're related to bad people. If so that would place these kids in the 'Potentially Bad Cause They're Related To Bad People Category' now too.
Not just yet, I'm still tender from before.