WTH is wrong with society??!!

[azskyman]

Among other things Eric, people are frustrated by the events in our world; the war, the cost of energy, how hard they have to work, or how hard it is to find a GOOD job. I think our moral fiber is eroded by the courts, television, and emphasis on short term fixes not long term change.

I think we spend far too little on education and far too much on rescuing others from situations of their own making.

We are taught to be aware of those who get too close, care too much, or otherwise believe the spirit and the heart are as important as the checkbook and the TV.

In the midst of all the misguided energy and misguided dollars and investments into each other, people lash out at the easy targets; family, friends, and the unfortunate. And therein lies the challenges of keeping sanity in check.

Many of those who commit such acts, while not excusable in any way, have been victims themselves.

It's a cycle that requires a long time fix, not a short term dose of anything.

[stormie_skies]

Eric - I share your anguish. This story broke Thursday night. We here in Cincinnati had a continuous breaking news scroll on every local channel, with the dad's picture, giving his last known whereabouts. He ended up at a Mall in my area! Thank goodness a security guard spotted him.

Apparently he was bi-polar and his daughter was afraid of how mean he could get w/o meds. Danielle would ask if she could stay with friends when her dad was in one of his mean streaks. The friends complied. Now if a friend of one of my daughter's told them this, what would I do? Just open our front door and say welcome? I think I'd want to do more and try to get that family help.

There's more....3 years ago he told police he would either kill his son or did kill, to go on disability.

There were red flags.

What I want to know I guess is this - if this man could be so mean w/o meds, why on earth did the mother stay with him? I would have taken those kids and left. If he qualified for visitation rights, I would have stayed at every visitation visit.

Well, I'm sure the mother feels awful now. Don't really want to put the blame on her but clearly this was not your average, everyone loves eachother, no anger in this household, family.



Here's the latest article:
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ ... /510150374

Mary

If the husband was bi-polar with violent tendencies and he took his meds irregularly, I have to wonder about the level of violence in the household - not just towards this little girl, but towards the mother also. I agree that she should have ideally gotten the heck outta there ....but I wonder if she felt that her life or the lives of her children would be threatened if she attempted it. In any sort of abusive relationship the threat to the abused parties escalates significantly if the abuser suspects that he/she will be abandoned.... and with this guy's mental issues and his seeming reluctance to deal with them properly, I find it hard to believe that this was the first time he had raised a hand to or threatened his family...