I think to myself you poor bastards you never had a chance
thank you. Weâre doing our best but he is a handful. đ¤Ł
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wscholermann@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
I look at some children, then I look at their parents and I think to myself you poor bastards you never had a chance.
I think to myself you poor bastards you never had a chance
thank you. Weâre doing our best but he is a handful. đ¤Ł
It really breaks my heart when I see this. I once saw a woman aggressively screech âshut up you cntsâ to her two toddlers crying in a supermarket. Seriously what chance do these kids have? When youth crime is committed, people often comment âwhere are the parentsâ. Well the parents are deadshits who donât care and were probably doing the same thing when they were kids. We canât expect these kids will get help from their families, but no other options for âparentingâ are available other than foster care. All you can do is hope that against the odds, as adults they are able to overcome the shitty birth lottery they got, and start a normal life. The ones who succeed are truly amazing.
The problem is even if they manage to live a normal life, they will be missing things most people have.
And because of that, they might find it hard to relate to the average person.
And they donât have the safety nets either.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Seeing perfectly happy and innocent kids be themselves and seeing their drongo dead shit parents kills me inside.
We have tests for driverâs licenses, we should have tests for people becoming parents.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Got an aunt who works in childcare, she says the EXACT same thing.
Iâve got mates who cause of their unresolved issues are fucking up their kids, so they decided to have another kid. Like. um⌠what?! how about NO guys.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâm wary of tests.
Pretty sure I have family members who would ace the test because they intellectually know the right answers and can express themselves with authority because they are educated.
But in practice they are not good at all because they have shit personalities.
And then there would people who are not very literate or well educated who would stink at a test but who are great parents.
iow, what are we testing and how are we testing?
MeanElevator@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Honestly I donât know what we could test. Too many variables. I do think that some kids lose the genetic lottery and are born into shit situations. If we could prevent that, that would be great.
DolphinLundgrin@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Test:
Tester: âDo you want kids?â
Testes: âYesâ
Tester: âWong answerâ