Chicagoist: Too Sad For Words

Bill V

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:25:46 -0600

I say the kid grows up to be Mayor, or maybe even something better like County Board President!

james

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:19:58 -0600

obviously the woman is mentally ill and as horrible as leaving the kid was, she seems to ahve a problem that needs some sort of treatment. i think the focus should be on DCFS, which was familiar with her and her kid [does she have others?] but they seem to really have done nothing to help either. shame on them.

Bill V

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:58:27 -0600

I say the kid grows up to be Mayor, or maybe even something better like County Board President!

Bill V

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:44:12 -0600

I bet this boy grows up to be Mayor, or maybe even something better like County Board President!

FernLaPlante

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:36:40 -0600

In college I worked at an amusement park in Pittsburgh in the Guest Services department. Very often (and by that I mean several times a week) parents would ditch their kids at the park (often as young as 7 or 8) and leave them in the custody of our Guest Services department for hours and hours. Sometimes up to 8 or 9 hours, while the parents were off enjoying the park or even left to go do God knows what. When they did come to pick them up they would yell at the kid for "getting lost" even though the kid had been there for 8 hours - they parent(s) knew where to find them. On more than one occasion they parents never returned and the kid had to be turned over to the custody of the city police. Very sad and very frequent.

MJK

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:29:48 -0600

With all this issues of Gay marriage these days and people fighting for who can and can't marry, has anyone ever looked at the issue of who can and can't have children? Seriously. They put regulations on every aspect of human stupidity (gun license, drivers license, smoking age, drinking age), why can't they regulate the level of responsibility when it comes to rearing a child. Is anyone going to feel sorry for this child when he commits his first felony? And a bigger shame on the DCFS. Name one success story that has come out of their interventions.

geekgrrl

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:23:33 -0600

she sounds mentally ill. as horrible a thing as she did, i feel for her.