How does stuff like this happen to a first world nation?

[cybrsage]

14 year old girl gives birth
child (not the mom) later develops behavioral problems
dysfunctional family - father is in and out of prison, mom goes to high school for troubled kids

http://lightbox.time.com/2012/08/08/the-boy-from-troy-brenda-ann-kenneally/#1

child at one year old meets dad for first time, after the dad just got out of prison
child is put on social security disability
child is unable to function is public school system

read the description of #17, and look at his eyes in #40

the symptoms remind me of fetal alcohol syndrome.

Fetal alcohol syndrome should be treated as child abuse. You are right, there really is no excuse for it.

 

[Carfax83]

I'm not going to lie to you. Reading this article disgusted me beyond belief D:

These people are like beasts, and if I had my way, I'd sterilize the lot of them!

To me it just reinforced my belief that the vast majority of people that have children, should never have had children at all because they cannot take care of them properly or afford them..

And it's always the ones that cannot take care of them or afford them that constantly seem to be popping them out with abandon..

 

[Texashiker]

Maybe a year ago or so I read an article about a family who adopted two children from russia. When the kids reached 4, 5 or maybe 6 years old they started developing uncontrollable fits of rage and were prone to violence.

The parents took the kids to all different kinds of doctors. One doctor diagnosed the kids with fetal alcohol syndrome.

Some time after the diagnosis, the kids blood uncle called the adoptive parents. He told the parents his sister had been an alcoholic and drug user. After being released from a trip to the hospital, his sister (the birth mom) killed herself.

It was a tragic story of drug and alcohol abuse, a dead mother, and disabled children that were going to need a lifetime of treatment.

 

[blackangst1]

Their living conditions are better than many middle class homes Ive been in in S. American and SE Asia.

But back on topic, very sad. Lack of education is the worst thing for people.