This story really stuck in my crawl. A 15 year old mother tried to kill her infant while allegedly throwing the baby out of a moving taxi cab. A nearby store owner witnessed the whole thing. The baby was wrapped with a towel and covered in blood. Luckily the baby survived. What a horrible mother. Who would let a 15 year old take care of a baby when she herself is still a kid. I’m sure there were signs that she wasn’t fit to be a mother. Someone who tries to kill their child should be showing some signs of distress or unhappiness. Let’s just say, she ruined the rest of her life but luckily this story had a happy ending and the baby survived. The 15 year old could be charged with infanticide. (Never heard of that charge until now)

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In an article by Times Online in Britain, parenting has become the main focus on creating a disastrous life plan for children growing up.

“So what went wrong - why did you drop out of school?” I asked. “My parents were just liberal about schools,” he said. “They never made me go.”

This has been a trend unfortunately on the rise. Parents just aren’t there to provide support and a proper environment. That in effect has changed the morals of families and they no longer value working hard or self praise. Its a non stop circular cycle. Children often learn best from their parents. When they grow up they essentially do not know how to be just that, parents.

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An investigation in Australia found that parents have been supplying alcohol to their teens. Its not just a few, but startling number of parents provide boos for their children. Here are the statistics:

Male teens ages 12-16: About 30%

Female teens ages 12-16: About 40%

Those are pretty large numbers. Almost half of the females studied have parents who supply alcohol.

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Phoenix, AZ- Mom pleads guilty to various child abuse charges for failing to protect her daughter from former boyfriend, Jonathan Ray Dudley. He essentially punched the child in the stomach causing her death while her mother did nothing to stop it. Dudley was sentenced to 35 years in prison. Mom is currently awaiting sentence.

Summary of charges for mother:

one count of child Abuse, a class two felony and dangerous crime against children, and one count of child abuse, a class three felony and dangerous crime against children.

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She had it coming. Shandrell Banks received a life sentence in the state of Georgia for ruthlessly killing her 2 year old daughter, Nateyonna Banks. In 2006, Nateyonna passed away from blunt force trauma to her head. All of this came amidst controversy within the Division of Family and Children’s Services. The department decided to let the child stay with her mother despite her mother’s extensive drug history and emotional problems.

States are constantly bickering over the issue of what are the “legal and appropriate” conditions to remove a child from his or her parents. As with the recent child seizures in Texas, sometimes those boundaries are given a double take.

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