Parents Force Daughter to Drink Lethal Amounts of Soda

[Marvolo]

Dissarano and coke tastes exactly like Dr Pepper. Mmmmmm...

Really? Well I know what my next drink will be.

 

[The Endless]

Try it. But it's really sweet. I wouldn't recommend having more than a couple.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

But if it was Dr. Pepper?

At least it's not Coke?

 

[charl_huntress]

I'm not really talking about getting a tanned backside. I'm talking about when parents take it too far or lose their temper. That isn't discipline.

If my dad beat the crap out of me when i was a kid as soon as i got old enough i would have beaten the crap out of him. Why would i respect someone like that? Doesn't matter if it's a parent. Respect should be earned.

The bolded is an excellent point. Some parents do take whooping too far, and if the terminology tan your hide is being used something is wrong. I think spankings (I like that word better) should be used only for the young. There's an age when it stops being appropriate, and every parent needs to determine what age that is. It's not a one size fits all philosophy. That also means spankings are not for every kid.

Nope, it completely needs to happen. There have been enough studies that indicate a large part of behaviour from infancy through to adulthood is shaped by parental input and observational learning. A parent is directly responsible for how a child is socialized and ultimately what kind of contribution they make they make to the world, I'm not saying it should go as far as an individual accused of murder should have his parents be accountable in part, but there should definitely be an aptitude test of a sort.

I find it strange that to adopt a child there are a horde of tests and prerequisites and standards people need to comply with, but in terms of natural procreation everybody and anybody can have a child. With the global population where it is, and statistics indicating that people with lower socioeconomic and educational standards have more children it's necessary to implement some kind of influence. For every one Bill Nye or Steve Jobs being born there are 5 Justin Biebers and like 10 George Bushes.

I don't know if you've seen a movie called Idiocracy, with Luke Wilson I think it is, it's a pretty accurate parody of this topic.

Thanks for the recommend. I'll check that movie out. I also find it strange that there's a monitoring period even after the adoption for up to a year in some cases. I don't think new mothers or new parents even get a phone call from the hospital after they're released...unless of course it's about the bill that's going to be due.

In this day an age most parents in the U.S. tend to leave parenting to the schools because they don't want to parent, or don't know how to be parents.

Dissarano and coke tastes exactly like Dr Pepper. Mmmmmm...

What is that?

 

[JewishHobbit]

I feel sorry for these parents.

 

[The Endless]

What is that?

Ooops i spelt it wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaronno

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Oh I gotcha and agree. There is definitely a line. Whooping can be taken too far.

What I don't think is ok when a "whooping" results from anger. When it goes from discipline to being something that is done for the satisfaction of the parent. No discipline should be implemented for a parent to get their anger out or to get some sort of satisfaction.

The situation here reeks of this.

 

[NickNitro]

I feel sorry for these parents.

 

[JewishHobbit]

Personally, I had no clue that excessive amounts of pop could harm a person in the slightest. If someone I knew told me they did this, I wouldn't think anything of it. I'd consider it a friendlier form of the smoking a whole pack of cigarettes thing. Likely the parents thought the same thing. I'm just thinking about how I'd feel if I were in their shoes, and I'd want to hang myself in absolute terror and grief. To know you killed your kid by forcing a punishment that you had no idea could hurt them... that's horrendous.

So yeah, I feel sorry for them.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Personally, I had no clue that excessive amounts of pop could harm a person in the slightest. If someone I knew told me they did this, I wouldn't think anything of it. I'd consider it a friendlier form of the smoking a whole pack of cigarettes thing. Likely the parents thought the same thing. I'm just thinking about how I'd feel if I were in their shoes, and I'd want to hang myself in absolute terror and grief. To know you killed your kid by forcing a punishment that you had no idea could hurt them... that's horrendous.

So yeah, I feel sorry for them.

This can't be a serious respond. Water poisoning exist. Too much of any liquid can obviously kill you, especially when you double the amount of liquid inside a 5 year old child.

And even if you didn't realize this before. Watching your kid throw up everywhere and show clear signs of pain, should start to clue you in.

But yeah, lets feel sorry for people who were clearly torturing a little girl...

 

[JewishHobbit]

I'm sorry. Maybe I should put my sarcasm hat on to please you.

 

[charl_huntress]

^^lolol

Ooops i spelt it wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaronno

Thanks! I wasn't sure.

What I don't think is ok when a "whooping" results from anger. When it goes from discipline to being something that is done for the satisfaction of the parent. No discipline should be implemented for a parent to get their anger out or to get some sort of satisfaction. The situation here reeks of this.

I agree this situation sounds like horrible abuse. Even if there is ignorance involved it was still horrible to abuse a child that way. My point has always been I don't think they knew that form of abuse would kill her, or it will be hard to prove they did.

The fact they thought the punishment they were administering was non-lethal should be considered when it comes sentencing...IMO...because they weren't trying to kill her. It makes a difference from them being totally depraved and indifferent to what they were doing.

 

[Xeno]

This can't be a serious respond. Water poisoning exist. Too much of any liquid can obviously kill you, especially when you double the amount of liquid inside a 5 year old child.

And even if you didn't realize this before. Watching your kid throw up everywhere and show clear signs of pain, should start to clue you in.

But yeah, lets feel sorry for people who were clearly torturing a little girl...

Once I read that the parents ignored the child's vomiting, listened to her scream in agony for hours and only took her to the ER after she fell into an irreversible coma, all doubt about their abusiveness vanished.

 

[Sawyer]

Yeah, can we NOT defend/feel sorry for the parents who forced their daughter to ingest something that killed her, for an nothing more than taking a grape soda?

It's idiotic. Even by Hype standards.

 

[Hal_Jordan]

Yeah, can we NOT defend/feel sorry for the parents who forced their daughter to ingest something that killed her, for an nothing more than taking a grape soda?

It's idiotic. Even by Hype standards.

I wonder if people even read the article, because it said these "poor parents" did some other forms of punishment(which they won't describe) as well as the soda thing.

So they were at the very least overly abusive as well as stupid.

 

[Paladin-Hoss]

I wonder if people even read the article, because it said these "poor parents" did some other forms of punishment(which they won't describe) as well as the soda thing.

So they were at the very least overly abusive as well as stupid.

Most times , i noticed that most posters just read the headlines and then posts their comments.

 

[JewishHobbit]

I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt, as media tends to paint people who do something like this in a horrible light.

Though I admit... I didn't read the article

 

[Godzilla2000]

Don't know why I thought of this but when reading the thread title I was thinking, "Here kiddies, have some liquid death!" spoken in a death metal timbre.

 

[NickNitro]

I'm sorry. Maybe I should put my sarcasm hat on to please you.

You have a hat for that? Do you put it on.......sarcastically?

 

[JewishHobbit]

Slow and dramatically. It's epic.