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Originally Posted by VT2TV
Hi,
I don't mean to be unsympathetic to the child that lost his father, and his mother is in the service. But if you let that child live in TV, what will stop someone else having the same story-which is all to common these days-where the grandparents wind up raising their grandchildren for numerous reasons. How can you let one and not the others? And maybe the child is quiet and behaves now, but what about the future. And if that family breaks a rule and gets by with it, how can you truely enforce other rules? Is there a list of rules it is ok to break, and a list of rules that should be enforced?? I appologize for the length of my response, but we are going to a lot of time, money and trouble to move to our wonderful retirement home, and it is not fair for people to decide what rules they individually are going to observe--or not.
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Do remember that this child is not using any TV facilities and all neighbors are in total agreement to this child staying until the mother comes back. I'm not saying it is right to break the rules, but I do believe that there should be exceptions to rules, especially if those affected by this breaking are not only okay with it but are thrilled that the rule is being broken (the neighbors LOVE this child and are happy to be its great-aunts and uncles -- they literally fight to babysit). Sorry, folks, but sometimes I think compassion is more important than any rule (I will stop on the side of a road to help a lost animal even though signs are posted saying no stopping). Also, this child does not have an ID card that I know of. The grandparents aren't lying to anyone, they're just not informing TV that a child is living with them and the neighbors are happily keeping silent as well. So far as I know, had even one neighbor objected, they would have found another solution to having their grandchild live with them.