Parenting is not for everyone. Once deciding upon having a child, one must take on a whole new level of responsibility. One is not only taking care of one’s self, but taking care of another life form.
This means having to sacrifice some of the joys of non parenting life for one’s child. This also means that if one is not ready for motherhood, then perhaps one must learn to close their freakin’ legs! Or at least wear some protection.
In one of the most recent examples of bad parenting, and perhaps someone who wasn’t ready to transition into parenthood, one woman risked the well being of her child for something even greater. Well, greater as far as her personal list of priorities is concerned.
So, what can be greater than the well being of one’s own child? The answer in this case was shopping!
28 year old Kelly Grimes, a likely candidate for worst mother of the year, felt that shopping was more important than her child.
As the woman and her mother (the child’s grandmother) spent the day out shopping, the toddler spent her day home alone for six hours. Way to go grandma, you sure set a great example!
After several calls from neighbors, officers arrived at the home to find the two-year-old toddler crying as she held on to an empty milk bottle. The child was wearing a heavily soiled diaper and the heat in the home had been left on.
Needless to say, the mother was arrested with a nine month sentence and the child was rescued by social services.
Looking at the circumstances, I would say that nine months is too short of a sentence, especially for a mother who, according to neighbors, made it a frequent occurrence to leave the child home alone.
Seriously! If one is not ready to take on the burden of having a child, one must learn to take the adequate form of prevention and best of all, learn to close those legs. Parenting is a serious matter and should not be taken lightly.
News Article: Mother jailed after leaving soiled toddler home alone so she could go on six-hour shopping trip
4 comments on "Child Neglect"
I heard a good contraceptive is aspirin, the woman holds it between her knees.
Wow some people are just idiots,what a horrible thing to do,i agree 9 months isn't long enough she should have got longer.
Appears she must never have wanted a child so she should have been extra careful not to get pregnant..
I've had friends choose abortions, and as careful as they were to avoid pregnancy...stuff happens. But as much as they wanted to keep it, it just wasn't the time too and I told them that it was the right decision. You don't want to bring a child into a world where you're not prepared to take care of him/her...it's unfair too. I'm not pro-abortion or anti. I'm "pro-woman".
I can't understand how someone who has a child, carried that baby for 9 months, can just 'leave' the kid at home and go off for shopping .. if the child is maybe 8-9 yrs old, okay - I might understand, but a 2 yr old toddler ?? That's just CRUEL !
A longer sentence should have been imposed on her !
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