WHO IS SUPPOSED TO PROTECT THESE CHILDREN?

     A 6 year old boy kidnapped from his own home after his grandfather fails to pay millions to drug lords.  A 12 year old girl driven by her mother to fight a girl for talking about her. A 2 year old girl vanishes after mother leaves her with boyfriend who is a convicted sex offender.

     While these are all seperate cases, they all have one thing in common: These children and many more like them are the victims of their own families. The latest missing child was ripped from his home at 7 in the morning by two men who were looking for his grandfather. His grandfather owes them millions from a meth ring he was part of. When they were unable to find the grandfather or money they took the next thing of value, this child. He is just a little boy. He didn’t have anything to do with this and should never have been in that home to begin with. He is only 6 years old. How was he supposed to know that his grandfather was dealing drugs out of his home? My heart breaks to think of what this child must be feeling. He is alone and scared and the last  memory he has is watching his mother be tied up by two scary men with guns. I only hope that they see the national coverage and let him go. Leave him on the side of the road, take him to a church or anywhere, just don’t hurt him.

     The next case is not about a child missing but definately about child abuse. A 31 year old mother drove her daughter who is 12 to meet with another 12 year old girl and fight her. It was videotaped and when the womans daughter apparently was losing the fight she jumped in. She dragged the girl by her hair and hit her. What astounds me more was there were other parents around watching the whole thing. What is wrong with these parents? Is this how we teach our children to deal with someone who says something about you that you don’t like? Didn’t anyone see the outcome of the girls in Florida who thought it would be “FUN” to beat up one of their supposed friends so that they could post it on You Tube? This mother deserves to have her child taken away from her and deserves to be punished to the fullest extent. Not only for being the one to orchestrate the fight but for what she did to this other child. If I was this girls mother who was attacked, you can bet that the best thing that would happen to this woman was that she was put in jail. God Help any person who thought they would attack my child.

     Now a 2 year old baby is missing. The mother went to work, when she was picked up by her boyfriend he told her the child was missing from a gas station. Well, he was never at the gas station and low and behold he is a convicted sex offender! Did she not know? Well then shame on her. Did she know? Well then she should be charged with the crime also. How is it that a mother leaves her child with someone she does not know everything about? Where is that fierce nature to protect your child at any cost?

     It is a scary world that the children of today are growing up in. The values of family seem to be gone. Parents want to be friends with their kids instead of being parents. It is a parents job to teach, nurture, love and discipline. It is their job to equip their children with the tools necessary to survive as adults in this world. Parents are afraid to discipline because they could be introuble… Well, I dare a police officer to arrest me for disciplining my child. There is a very clear line between abuse and discipline. Children need to know that for every action there is a consequence.

     Parents it is time to stop thinking that it is not your job to teach and protect these miraculous creatures that you have been given the honor of having. Whos is going to save them all from the monsters of this world? It is sad when the ones who are supposed to protect them turn out to be the monsters themselves….