Comments by "Deborah Freedman" (@deborahfreedman333) on "WPLG Local 10" channel.

With attitudes like yours, I'm glad my children are adults. Today's parents can't even speak sharply, to their child, without some busybody reporting them for abuse. A parent let their 12 year old walk two blocks, to the neighborhood park, and was arrested for child neglect. Parents are afraid to discipline their children, yet are expected to drive them everywhere and never say "no", and then get blamed when their child is a spoiled brat.
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I knew many kids, with horrible abusive parents, who were kind and gentle. I also knew kids, with wonderful loving parents, who were violent and acted out. Don't blame the parents until you know more about them.
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Orangiest That depends upon the age of the child. Once they hit adolescents, their friends are a much bigger influence. Take a development psychology course, because when I took such a course, we were taught parents had limited positive impact.
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Don't blame the parents yet. I knew a lovely family, the mother worked at my father's practice, as his nurse. They were a bit too religious for my tastes, super devote Catholics, but good people. One of their sons was a well liked police detective. I was friends with the daughter, so was upset when someone raped her in her own bedroom. Then, our little rural city had a string of rape/murders, most of the victims were nurses. A few months of terror passed, with a few more brutal rape/killings, and he was caught, the detective figured out the killer was his own brother. The killer's parents and siblings were all really good people, but there was something wrong with Dennis.
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