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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  I agree with you, she has so thoroughly destroyed their lives, I can’t imagine therapy helping that much though. This is so much more than a spoiled brat to me, I really believe that there are "bad seeds", and parents can’t create a conscience in a child they can help mold it, but the child has to have one to begin with.
One thing I learned in this trial is that the mother convinced Casey to keep the child, Casey wanted to give it away. Before I read about this, I thought that would be a good thing, but now I wonder?  If a girl wants to give her child away, maybe that's what should happen, or adopt the baby yourself. She didn't want to be a mother, and no child should have a mother who doesn't want to be a mother. |
I completely agree with this statement. I grew up in a household where my mother gave her all unconditionally. I am very lucky to have grown up this way because it makes me constantly evaluate the stage of life I am in and whether or not I can just drop everything in my life and put my child #1. Until I feel like I can live up to the type of mother my mom was and still is--that will be the day when I settle down and I have kids. Unfortunately, I see kids all around me (I'm 23) having kids when I can just tell that they are not "there" yet to be parents. I almost feel as if people don't even remotely evaluate whether or not they can be good parents. I used to not agree with abortions (I was raised in an extremely religious household) but I still have the internal debate within me when I see cases like this...or even the many kids who end up with irresponsible parents...I don't really want to start a debate about choice or life...I guess the only thing I'm saying is that I really wish people wouldn't have sex irresponsibly. Although I'm not ready to be a mother, ever since I was little I've always thought about adopting rather than having a child of my own, and cases like this only reinforce that sentiment. I wish this child would have been put up for adoption...I just hope that the next parent does just that instead of ending up where Casey is right now.