Wait..what?

At this point, I have no idea how much of this is true. What I do know is that her parents are assholes and maybe that’s why she turned out that way?

Truth. Tragic-faux-latto. That’s awesome and I’m going to steal it from you. It’s annoying and yet kind of funny at the same time.

I dunno, I spent my life around people of all different shades. Hell, some of my fathers cousins passed during the depression in order to feed their families. In her latter photos she looks a lot like me (and luckily I was born during a time when birth certificates still reflected race so I have my black card). Even…

Side Note: This is what bugged the hell out of me about Luke and Laura on General Hospital.

A pack of cigarettes? I could actually afford to buy and free one or two Women.

Wow, that’s a lot of drama. I want to see these two back on the court, playing against each other. It should be fun stuff.

Not the first triple crown of my lifetime.

No argument here. I managed to raise two pretty cool people. I did have all kinds of creative ways of dealing with my teenagers and I never ever enjoyed it the way this guy seemed to. Like any parent, I made a lot of mistakes but I would never have dreamed of doing something like this and then publicly humiliate them.…

A little bit. Not much. It makes something that was cruel a lot more heartless.

From the video that they made after she died, it looks like they might be Polynesian. Hair has significance and I read in the comments that it might be usual for hair to be cut as a punishment, depending on their background. From what I know, it’s very forbidden in that culture to abuse women. We don’t know the whole…

Exactly! Kids will do dumb things. I once caught my son typing in every dirtyword.com into the browser. He was 13. Of course they are curious about sex.

Cue another long boring lecture and a grounding from the internet. The shame of being caught was enough without my adding to it. Oh, and he had to listen to his…

I have been trying to figure out from the comments on the Tacoma blog. I think it may have been a selfie that he didn’t like or it may have been “drugs”. It reminded me of the day that I found my daughters myspace page (It was the last decade, don’t judge). It was mildly shocking. I think just the fact that I had…

I think that the father is getting a taste of his own medicine, but I wouldn’t wish this kind of attention on most of my worst enemies.

I imagine that she felt unloved.

Me too! As I said above, empathy and understanding is far more effective than shaming. My daughter was bulled in her sophomore year by some other girls. I was in the fortunate position of being able to move and to put her in a much better situation.

It’s possible that he didn’t know that she was being bullied.

As you pointed out, teenagers are at high risk for suicide and one single incident can trigger someone susceptible. I don’t think it’s necessary to punish a father for being a crappy father and making a horrible mistake.

Side note: To keep my kids out of trouble, I used to threaten my kids that I would show up at…

+100

Do they even know what their job is? I think that we need some clarification here. Is it to beat up protesters? Perform a lot of unjustified stop & frisks or to protect people?