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[sadguy]

and she gets arrested for it

crazy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUhfXcerotY

kudos to the guy who stepped in. most people would've just watched or drove by

[Radius]

Utter trash. Plain and simple.

[RMNC]

Child endangerment, plain and simple.

[ZIFA]

Looks like an exasperated single parent. I assume the father is absent or not around to resolve the situation/ discipline the boys.

As much as I hate fighting...and know that it is wrong... Every mother wants her son to be able to look after himself if need be.

Correct way to do this though is to send him to proper boxing or martial arts classes. Where he can wear protective gear in a safe and controlled environment.

[RMNC]

Because only fathers raise and discipline their children, and children without fathers all grow up to be violent thugs, right?

[rollo]

There is some evidence that children raised without their father are less disciplined and more violent.

[ZIFA]

[Setaro]

It's nothing to do with a lack of a father, it's a mix of the parents/neighbourhood/social class/society at large that creates violent thugs.

My father is an asshole and I'm glad I was raised by a single mother. Sure the fact that I had not a single male-figure in my childhood means I can't really relate to other men, still, makes me a hit with the ladies because I know how they think

But anyway, I come from a poor town, rife with drug and alcohol problems along with chronic unemployment. All the men spend every evening getting drunk in the local pubs, doing dead end jobs/claiming welfare.

If I'd had a father (biological or step) in my life I'm pretty sure I would have been taken to the pubs regularly, and grown up into a violent drunken waster like the rest of them.

[ZIFA]

[Setaro]

It's most important aspect in building a child's character is down to the parent, or parents, be it a single mother or a single father, or a couple. Children learn from experience, if a parent is physically abusive to a child the child obviously has a much higher chance of becoming violent themselves.

It's the same if you have a generally uncaring parent , ones who don't care what the child gets up to, and then that child falls in with local thug kids. That's why you get lots of children with terrible parents falling in with gangs; the gangs give them the emotional support and sense of belonging that they didn't get from their parent(s). But even good parents, if the family lives in a bad area, will have to be saints in order to not have their child fall in with the wrong crowd and all that comes with that.

And, while I don't doubt your statistics, do those statistics also include information which shows the socio-economic group the youths came from?
I would stake money that the number of youth offenders raised by unemployed single mothers in the projects/ghetto/council estates, compared to the number coming from upper-middle class single-mother households will be vastly different.

Also do the figures take into account that single mothers may have several partners/boyfriends, any of whom might be abusive/violent/assholes and influence the kids into being assholes themselves, in which case it's not the lack of a father-figure, but rather the lack of a good father figure that's the problem.

But I had neither and I turned out ok.

[highstreet]

is that Young Turks show supposed to be funny

[sadguy]

[rumdiary]

[D.D.]

[Steelrails]

I'm offended by the mom's bad fight advice. Clearly she doesn't perceive the value in grappling whereas the kids are trying to imitate the UFC to some ill-trained degree.

I don't know their neighborhood or the back story to all of this. I mean what's supposed to happen? Mom and son and the boy sit down for a "teachable moment"??? At least stuff a point is getting maid. Things are probably going to settle after this. What should the mom do? Tell the son to give the other boy a card that says "Let's be friends"? THAT would be endangering the welfare of her child because I guarantee if her son did that he would get beat 8 days a week by people at school.