Where Politics And Video Games Collide

snakestream: You said, "if I had a kid and he thought “**** you, I don’t have to listen to you,” I would beat his ass or throw him out of the house, see how he thrives when he doesn’t have a parent to leach free housing, food, and entertainment from."

See, there's the problem. You don't have kids. Before I had children I thought as you do. If they do X and then don't listen then I'll do Y and they'll fall into line.

But in reality that doesn't necessarily work. There are two things in this world that are incredibly difficult to train. One of them is cats. The other is children. Raising children, especially good children, is a crap-shoot. Sometimes you just get a bad one. Or maybe you displine with the belt when you should be disciplining with love. Or vice versa. Too much love and not enough discipline. Don't presume that you have the answer as to what happened to this kid and what the parents could have done to avoid this.

And you think that being strict = compliance? I have a number of colleagues who represent parents when Child Protective Services tries to take their children away. I have discussed this kind of thing with them. They have had many instances when a teenage child has made up stories of rape, incest, beatings, etc which later turned out to be proven false. Without fail, according to my colleagues, these teens come from either (a) ultra religious households or (b) ultra strict households.

So you see, sometimes displine or religion is not the answer, but the problem.