We spent a lot of time last week on mean, destructive parents. But bad parenting has a lighter side as well. Being a bad parent can mean forcing your kid to eat spinach, even though the very scent makes him wretch. It can mean forcing your kid to compete in beauty pageants. Or, it can […]
No bad parents on this day of rest and reflection.
Well, unless you count these bastards. Thanks, Liz…you just killed what remained of my weekend.
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An unnamed woman in Washington Township, OH is accused of having a consensual sexual relationship with her 17-year-old adopted son. [NOTE: Use BugMeNot to get username/password info for the paper.] Reports say that the two were living together in a Super 8 motel (eeew), where they had intercourse (gack), drank booze (yeesh) and cut themselves […]
Under a new law, the city of Cleveland, OH will throw parents in the hoosegow for not controlling their suspended or expelled schoolchildren. Under the law, if a kid assaults a teacher or is caught roaming the streets after being booted from school, mom and pop face fines and possible jail time. How this is […]
The most amazing thing about this story is not that a father forgot his kid in his car, nearly killing her. This is, unfortunately, all too common. What’s amazing is the advice offered in the article to prevent tragedy:
Metro police recommend the following to help you remember that your child is in the car:Leave something […]
Thanks (I think) to reader Brian Elias for this pointer about Athena Stoddard, a Dallas suburbanite mom convicted for selling her 14-year-old daughter’s body to support her own drug habit. The article doesn’t say what the woman was snorting, shooting, or otherwise ingesting. The details that are included are gruesome enough. Stoddard actively rounded up […]
You have to wonder what the rest of Emma Cherrett’s childhood was like. The 25-year-old accidentally injured a kitten last year and, instead of taking it to the vet, her mother, Patricia Smith, beat it to death with a hunk of wood. Smith contends the wood-bashing was preferable to paying 170 pounds to have the […]
All of us parents have had to deal with a crying baby. We’ve all felt frustrated - mainly with ourselves - for not being able to soothe our little ones. But most of us can contain our emotions, and step back from our egos long before we reach a breaking point. Sadly, such was not […]
Wow…what a bastard.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Detectives said it was one of the more blatant cases they’ve seen of a deadbeat dad. An Orlando man was not paying his child support while one of his kids was fighting for her life in a hospital.
Investigators said they’d been waiting for the chance to handcuff 34-year-old Kevin Baginski […]
A week or so ago, news media began reporting that Olivia Newton-John’s boyfriend of several years, Patrick Kim McDermott, had been missing since early July. (Way to jump on the story, guys.) Now comes this report from the Associated Press that McDermott owed back child support for his 13-year-old son, and was involved in a […]
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