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Originally Posted by Britster  Hell, my step-dad was from a family of 12 children and they drove all the way from MD to Rhode Island in a station wagon with 12 kids packed in, unbuckled, dad driving in the front seat with a cooler full of beer. Today, this would be completely illegal and a cause for being pulled over and ticketed - possibly even jailtime. The thought never even crossed their minds back then. It's not that they did not love their children... it was just... different. I'm not if it makes it right. But what's done is done. Let's say it was possible for my step-dads mother to still have children... would this make her a potential unfit parent for a child today? I don't believe so. |
I'm wondering what your stepdad's parents think about this now?
Let me also add that times have changed and so have laws etc over the past 30 or so years. Believe me, I look back on some of the things that I and many of our circle of friends did "back in the day" and there are plenty of things that we now reminisce about now 30 shake our heads in disbelief and say aloud "What the he!! were we thinking?!?!" What is missing is Romney's lack of accountability for his questionable actions many years ago. From what I have read and seen regarding this story IMO there wouldn't have been such an uproar from the animal loving public if he would have hung his head in shame, embraced it and said "Looking back, boy was that stupid". His response to this little bump makes his seem to not be in touch with something as basic as animals care also makes me wonder what else he is not in touch with regarding many other issues.