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#940703 - 04/11/08 05:38 PM where are the parents???
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Florida Police Search for 12-Year-Old Believed to Have Run Away With 19-Year-Old Internet Boyfriend

look at the picture of this girl, certainly doesn't look 12 (not that that means it's okay). Too bad she didn't live in a school district where extreme hairstyles aren't accepted...I still don't understand parents in this day and age who don't monitor what their kids do online.
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#940709 - 04/11/08 05:42 PM Re: where are the parents??? HappyGilmore
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OH, Happy. Did you have to go and open this can of worms on a Friday afternoon? Let's go back to the bar and I'll buy you a drink.

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#940725 - 04/11/08 05:50 PM Re: where are the parents??? Truffle Royale
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That is exactly why we use parental controls on my son's computer.

People are just so stupid.
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#940726 - 04/11/08 05:51 PM Re: where are the parents??? Truffle Royale
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That is exactly why we use parental controls on my son's computer.

People are just so stupid.

Then again, after I saw her picture on the article, she looks like a tramp, what kind of parent would let their 12 year old kid be dressed like that? Obviously, clueless ones.
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#940758 - 04/11/08 06:11 PM Re: where are the parents??? Retired DQ
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The sad thing is, it looks like we have a trash kid from trash parents, and the little tramp is going to birth trash babies. And the cycle of Po'white trash continues until we sterilize them.

Some parents are just stupid and deserve what they get. Get with the program!
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#940816 - 04/11/08 06:35 PM Re: where are the parents??? Retired DQ
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Originally Posted By: Devil Queen
That is exactly why we use parental controls on my son's computer.

People are just so stupid.

Then again, after I saw her picture on the article, she looks like a tramp, what kind of parent would let their 12 year old kid be dressed like that? Obviously, clueless ones.


the same one's that sue cause junior can't wear a mohawk to school...sadly, there are many in society that believe kids she be allowed to express themselves...then wonder "where did I go wrong"
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#940831 - 04/11/08 06:50 PM Re: where are the parents??? HappyGilmore
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Sometimes I believe parents express themselves through their children.

I didn't have a daughter, but did have a son. If I had been blessed with a daughter I don't believe I would have allowed such dress and radical hair. Come on - what 12 year old (or teenager for that matter) doesn't look better with their natural hair color. Yes, I'm old fashioned I guess, but come on. Youth is beauty - remember?
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#940833 - 04/11/08 06:52 PM Re: where are the parents??? HappyGilmore
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I believe that kids can express themselves but there always need to be limits. To say that blanket statement about allowing to kids express themselves in my opinion is shortsighted. What parents need to do is to teach kids how to express themselves and understand the consequences. The parents also need to use tools like parental controls that DQ uses while still allowing kids to express themselves.

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#940840 - 04/11/08 06:58 PM Re: where are the parents??? KAT
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Crazy that parents would allow their 12 year old to 'advertise' like that. It does make you wonder what is going on at home that makes a 12 year old dress like a 'lady of the evening'??

Sometimes parents have to parent, as crazy as that is.
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#940912 - 04/11/08 07:40 PM Re: where are the parents??? Jafo
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I'm wondering where the parents were when those 6 girls and 2 boys assualted that girl in FL and then posted it on YouTube?

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#940954 - 04/11/08 07:58 PM Re: where are the parents??? BotV#6
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That young girl certainly looks like ahooker. I too wonder what her parents are thinking letting her dress like that. Thankfully I never had that battle with my daughter because there would have been a battle. She is 33 now and still doesn't wear that much make-up.

As Bacon said some parents are just stupid and they deserve what they get. But the ones that actually suffer are the kids of these stupid parents.

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#940975 - 04/11/08 08:12 PM Re: where are the parents??? Ready to Retire
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thank you for sharing your child's age TOW!!!!!

now I don't feel like I have to lie about the age of my kids, lying about my age wasn't working anymore
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#941042 - 04/11/08 09:00 PM Re: where are the parents??? Pale Rider
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Too many parents think that instead of being a parent, they should be their child's friend and playmate. Kids need parents!!!! DQ's home will freeze over before my 11 year old daughter walks out of the house looking like this 12 year old. It is totally unacceptable and reflects a lack of sound judgement on the part of the parents.
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#941090 - 04/11/08 09:58 PM Re: where are the parents??? waldensouth
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You're assuming every one who has a baby is (a) capable of parenting that child and (b) wants to bother with the minimum 18 years they're supposed to do that job.

There are too many people out there that who are no more than sperm and egg donors. And then, there are those who have children the way they buy dogs or pick a car. Once they've got it, they start (b)itching about how much trouble it is and how poorly it behaves and never once do they look in the mirror to see the reason why.

Sorry. Rant over. TGIF!

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#941114 - 04/11/08 10:42 PM Re: where are the parents??? Truffle Royale
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Very nicely put, TR. Although drastic, I think the only way to assure all children are raised in loving and capable families is to regulate reproduction. Those caught defying the authorities premitting procreation would be sterilized.
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#941205 - 04/12/08 07:54 PM Re: where are the parents??? Truffle Royale
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#941283 - 04/14/08 03:50 AM Re: where are the parents??? Bailey.
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At least the boy's father had the common sense to turn him in.
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#941309 - 04/14/08 01:28 PM Re: where are the parents??? Bacon Boy
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Originally Posted By: BaconBoy
Very nicely put, TR. Although drastic, I think the only way to assure all children are raised in loving and capable families is to regulate reproduction. Those caught defying the authorities premitting procreation would be sterilized.


But who choses? If you ask me, instead of rewarding unfit parents with benefits, we should be rewarding unfit parents who give up their children for adoption, and fit parents who chose adoption. Adoption is far too expensive in this country, and there is not enough regulation over who gets to be foster parents either.

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#941461 - 04/14/08 03:42 PM Re: where are the parents??? Pale Rider
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Originally Posted By: Pale Rider
thank you for sharing your child's age TOW!!!!!

now I don't feel like I have to lie about the age of my kids, lying about my age wasn't working anymore


She's the youngest of my two. Does that make you feel better Pale? I had to quit lying about my age when I became the third oldest of the 100 employees here at our bank. I'm the oldest at our corporate office.

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#941465 - 04/14/08 03:49 PM Re: where are the parents??? Ready to Retire
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#941511 - 04/14/08 04:23 PM Re: where are the parents??? Pale Rider
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You've got me beat!!! LOL. I only have 2 1/2 years until retirment I hope.

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