11.28.2010
I came across an article today on Yahoo! that made me shake my head and proves, once again, that any idiot can have kids. And not just one kid but five.[1]
A couple was found in Pennsylvania hiding their five children. What makes this story amazing is that they weren’t living in an isolated part of town and, yet, still managed to keep their kids away from people. They had neighbors who, for 13 years, never knew they had a child let alone five. (Their eldest is 13; the youngest is 2.) Apparently authorities were tipped off several times that there was child neglect happening but the father was consistently uncooperative and, thanks to bureaucracy, it took this long to cut through the red tape and get a warrant (though a family member’s urging for action helped greatly once seeing the condition in which the kids were kept.)
The family was living in disgusting conditions with no water, heat or other utilities. No heat? In Pennsylvania?! I’m sure the parents will be found to be mentally unstable.
I know that we can’t start implementing restrictions on who can or can’t have children. But I don’t understand why those people who really shouldn’t be having kids keep having them. One child can be considered an accident, I guess. But why do these people keep having one after the other? There are now 5 more souls on this Earth who are stripped of anything and everything they know and have to start over. Their “old world,” of course, was abusive but tell that to a little kid who only wants his/her mom. These kids are now in foster homes probably separated from their siblings, scared and confused. Why do people do this? Why?
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