Personal Responsibility? Never heard of it.
Here's a follow-up on the recent shooting of a 15 year-old girl mentioned in the post below. The words of the girl's mother, exemplifying the utter lack of personal responsibility which has become sadly all too common these days.
Well, NOT letting your children roam around Dorchester (or anywhere for that matter) after midnight woud be a great fucking place to start.
So, here's a woman who obviously watches the news, and is aware of how unsafe her neighborhood can be, yet she doesn't seem to give a rat's ass that her 15 year-old girl, is out walking around after midnight. Sorry, Rhonda, it won't matter where you move. Your non-existent parenting skills and total lack of responsibility will eventually get you in your family right back into similar predicaments.
Rhonda Owens, the mother of 15-year-old Jaime Owens, who was shot though the neck early yesterday morning walking home in Dorchester, could scarcely believe her daughter is now a statistic.
"Every time I look at the news and hear (other victims), I think, `That poor mother.' And now it's me," said Owens, whose youngest child was expected to survive.
"I don't know that there's anything anyone can do," she said,
Well, NOT letting your children roam around Dorchester (or anywhere for that matter) after midnight woud be a great fucking place to start.
"but eventually everyone will move out of the city. I know that's what I'll be looking into."
So, here's a woman who obviously watches the news, and is aware of how unsafe her neighborhood can be, yet she doesn't seem to give a rat's ass that her 15 year-old girl, is out walking around after midnight. Sorry, Rhonda, it won't matter where you move. Your non-existent parenting skills and total lack of responsibility will eventually get you in your family right back into similar predicaments.
