Parents should take care of their own
Why do some children grow up to be irresponsible adults? Simply because the parents of those children haven’t taught them to be responsible for their own upkeep and actions. Although one would assume by the time children become 20-somethings, they would learn on their own how to legally maintain a responsible lifestyle for themselves.
Instead of earning a living through actual employment, most irresponsible adults prefer to make their way in life by stealing, bumming from other people, lying about the illegal things they do and the like. They expect someone else to provide their basic necessities, or they live on the streets or are in prison. Usually, it’s a combination of all three.
Some parents even have the nerve to deliberately dump their irresponsible children off on the doorsteps of grandparents, uncles and aunts or cousins. I fail to understand why these types of parents seem to think it is the relatives’ responsibility to provide shelter or other things for their children. I think they do this to avoid the responsibilities of parenthood.
I wonder if the parents who dump their children off on relatives’ doorsteps realize that their relatives already have the responsibility of supplying the basic necessities for themselves. Those relatives may not be financially able to take additional people into their homes.Also, those relatives may have already made future plans for themselves which do not include being burdened with someone else’s children of any age.
ó Ellie Mae Lambert
Salisbury