Not really defending however I don't pretend to be better than everyone else, we're all only human, when we feel we don't ahve control of a situation we lash out... Get off your frickin pedestal, raising kids is hard and thankless work, and when your divorsed it's 10x harder to raise a good kid if your former spouse sucks.
Also I came from a rather supportive family who didn't really imploy that kind of verbal abuse. However, my best friend's family... Like I've heard his mom call his little brother a ****** over not shoveling the drive-way, however I can see the love in the family, and both my best friend and his brother turned out just fine. I doubt this is going lead to terrible emotional scarring, but now what it will do, is give an 11 year old a chance to be a brat since 11 year olds will do anything to get their way.
High horse? I'm raising a kid on my own tyvm, a teenager whose mother isn't worth a damn, who's also hot-headed, heavy tempered and acts *exactly* the way Mr. Baldwin did in that phone call when she doesn't get her way. So I know a thing or two about this topic. What do you know, save for what you've 'observed'?
The guy was off his rocker on that cell phone. To me, it's indicative of a larger problem. Do you have any idea how verbally abusive he is or isn't to his daughter at times when the call is NOT sent forth over the internet? No, you don't. So we go with the evidence we have - the media reports of his temper, his own wife's remarks on his temper, and now this three-minute verbally abusive, name-calling tirade you heard, which *proves* he has a ticking bomb like temper, and yet you're still willing to give the guy the benefit of the doubt?
Point being, I don't care how pissed off someone is as a parent, you don't lay into a 12 year old the way he did on that voice mail and then expect POSITIVE results.
This guy is clearly a jerk - a rich, spoiled actor whose lifestyle and "time" is more important to him than his own freaking kids. Kids do stuff like that - they don't answer their cell phones when you call sometimes, they don't clean their rooms, they sneak around and try to get away with things. Boo freaking hoo, Mr. Baldwin and those blindly defending him. Has it ever occurred to anyone that maybe, just maybe, given the evidence we have, that HE is the problem here? That HE is the jerk?
Oh, of course not - he's the man in the situation. He must be the one who's being oppressed, and it must be the woman (and the girl) who are the oppressers
