Mom Sells Rule-Breaking Son's Car

Please tell me you don't have children. Do you mean to tell me you seriously believe that holding your children up to public ridicule is appropriate? That airing your private family matters in the newspaper is a reasonable behavior and not some kind of crazy mother from reality tv hell actions? What, have we reverted to the pathetic, dysfunctional attitudes of those paragon of sexual oppression and mental illness, the Puritans?

Better this public humiliation than having your name printed in the police blotter for DUI and have it permanently in your record. That being said, if the "friend" (where are his parents to teach honesty?) and owned up to his bottle of booze, then Mom might have to be lenient and not sold the car. But then again, what kind of friend lets you hang out to dry like that? Face itr, there is no law against what she did, there is not even a "social taboo." Good for her for being a concerned parent.

You'll find you're in the minority, Gwenny. Most people have responded with a full-on thumbs-up to the mum.

This mother and the rest of ya'll who support her answers the perennial question, WTF is wrong with the world. What is wrong with the world is that folks like this are permitted to perpetuate their genetics and then add insult to injury by mental and emotional abuse.

I have to ask you something. Why does this woman have a 19 yo who disrespected her? Hmmm? Where did her "darling" learned to behave in this way? I'll tell you. From his parents. I sincerely doubt this is the first time she are acted in childish, selfish and destructive ways toward the boy. I have no doubt she routinely uses ridicule and humiliation as "discipline'. He is behaving the way she taught him to behave, with disrespect. And she probably deserves far more disrespect than he will ever been able to deal out to her.

When my sisters and I were younger, my sisters criticized my child rearing. They mocked me and told me that my children would grow up to be criminals because I was too lenient . . .I talked to my kids and respected their answers and their boundaries. They, otoh, raised their babes according to good mainstream Christian Bible approved methods that included "spare the rod" and the idea that children are the property of parents and must do what the parents want.

Fast forward 20 years. One sister is still recovering from her son trying to run over her with a car, breaking her pelvis in several places. He's well on his way to being an habitual criminal. The other struggles with an alcoholic daughter who is the nightmare Spring break daughter from hell whose Facebook glorifies drunkenness and promiscuous behavior. My kids? Never committed a crime. Haven't raised their voices to me in over a decade, once they got past puberty. (Once, omg, my teenage daughter was really angry at me and we stood eye to eye in her doorway glaring at each other before I turned away and went into my room and she slammed her door behind me.) The ones at home only drink the time or two a year when we all sit down and make a pitcher of something and watch a movie, have never done drugs including tobacco, never given me a moments anxiety. I never even had to set a curfew for them.

The proof of the pudding, so they say, is in the tasting. Same genetics, different nurture, different results.

So, when this boy continues to escalate his behavior and something REALLY bad happens, she will throw up her hands and boohoo about how she did the best she could and it's not her fault. And it IS her fault. It's ALL her fault because she is a failure as a parent. And the fact that the majority of people support her is not evidence she's right, only evidence of how warped and dysfunctional our society has become.

So the next time you ask yourself "what is going wrong in the world", go look in the mirror. YOU are the reason the world is like it is.

You are a piece of work lady!

LOL What, the shock of finding out you jumped to an incorrect conclusion got your at a loss for real insults.

I do not like that you are able to sit on your butt and call other parents names and run them down for the way that they parent their kids.

You are also entitled to you opinion. However, having raised three intelligent, compassionate people who are good citizens and human beings, I believe I have every right to criticize idiots who are raising future criminals and alcoholics. It's not like, even if the b***h read this she would change . . . dysfunctional people like her are not capable of seeing their own sickness. Maybe if more people who have been good parents called all the wastes of carbon based life who call themselves parents on their abuse, the world would be a better place. Maybe if there were consequences for bad parenting . .or even better if manipulative, unskilled women like this were kept from breeding, we would have fewer angry, violence and out of control youth.