A Question of Parenting

There is a story in the news right now of a 15 year old girl who was on a family holiday in India who got drunk/stoned, was raped and then murdered. Her mother is under fire right now and being partly blamed for what happened.

The situation from what I've gather is she was having sex in England, doing drugs and drinking. Her mother knew about this, and let her. They were on holiday, the mother and the rest of the family went on a trip, leaving the 15 year old girl alone with some guys they'd only just met (one of which the mother knew the girl was sleeping with).

I look at that and ask, how in the world can the mother NOT be held responsible?! My father taught me that up until the age of 18 what I do is his responsibility. So when I went out at the age of 14 and got drunk he went nuts at me, because I was still his responsibility. What I had done was against the law and since he had not stopped me then he had broken the law too. Now my father didn't know what I had done until after the fact, but he was still willing to stand up and take responsibility for the actions of his under-age daughter.

That girl was too young to be having sex, so how in the world can that mother justify letting her daughter sleep with guys and then try and pretend to be a decent mother? Also any parent that willingly lets someone who's 15 smoke, drink or even worse, do drugs, should not be allowed to have kids! All three counts are against the law! That woman should be locked up if anything for knowingly breaking the law!

And as for leaving her daughter with some strange men in a foreign country, that was just asking for trouble! She has admitted she may have been naive - no woman, you were fucking stupid! What happened should not come as a surprise. You don't leave a 15 year old girl in the company of grown men who are doing drugs and drinking, they do NOT make good baby-sitting material. You were asking for something to happen to your daughter by letting her live that kind of lifestyle. There are plenty of parents who take responsibility for their children's actions and lose them to tragic circumstances, those parents deserve our sympathy. This woman most definitely does not; she handed her daughter over to those men to pretty much do what they wished with her.

It just sickens me to hear about parents like these. And people wonder what's wrong with our country?!