Oh, you guys…I can’t even with this.
I saw this earlier in the day and wrote a short blurb on FB, but the more I think about it, the angrier I get. Is this mother really this clueless? She says, “For me, I don’t believe for a second Adam did it.” She thinks his brothers did this to him? The bastard admitted that he did it, and she’s still protecting him. She had just recently broken up with the kid’s father. She hooks up with this loser, immediately decides they’re one big, happy family and of course he can be trusted with her kids..ta-da! Instant child care! Oh my God…I can feel my IQ drop just trying to imagine it.
I spent years (many, many of them) refusing to even entertain the idea of “dating” after my divorce when the kids were small. They were too young, needed and deserved 100% of my time and energy. I wanted them to look back and remember a safe, steady, loving home where all of their needs were met. Every child deserves that.
But unfortunately, what too many kids end up with is a mother or father who only has their own best interests at heart and the kids are all too obviously second best. Not long after my divorce, the girls and I ended up in a fairly poor neighborhood (stress the ‘hood). It was commonplace to see a different “boyfriend” moving into or out of a single mother’s apartment once a month or more. The father of her kids was either uninvolved, in jail or unknown and the revolving door of losers just kept spinning.
These idiot women who throw parenthood out the window just so they can have a boyfriend never ceases to blow my mind. I was fanatical about keeping my kids and my home safe. And if your kid ends up in the hospital with burns, bruises or worse and you, you moronic, clueless twit, say that “he would never do that”. If that’s really what you think, if your self-esteem is so poor that you think being with any bag of skin is better than being alone, if you’d defending that POS while you’re baby is still healing from his burns…than you need those kids taken away from you. You have no business being a parent.
And it’s not an age thing. Plenty of young mothers are amazing moms. You can be my age or older and still be an absolute imbecile. Just for the love of God…put your child first. Stop kidding yourself by saying that the kid needs a father-figure. What your kid needs is to be loved and protected by YOU. Work hard. Eat meals together. Read together. Laugh and hug and kiss and tell them how amazing they are. Set a good example. Show your children what they want to be when they grow up..because you can bet your ass that’s what they’re going to do…exactly what Mommy does.
