`````She is at home now; safe with her Dad and Grandmother, but it could have been bad. The girl is fifteen and she has no idea of what people are like. I don't want her to find out either. I know; as an adult I have to see it on a daily basis and it's left me jaundiced towards the world. There isn't always a happy ending. People will do bad things because it gives them pleasure and because they like that sense of power.
`````A while ago, her parents divorced and the other day, she ran away. This time, she stayed with her friend and was found safely at her home. The problem is that once they do it, they are prone to do it again unless they are given some other way to express their pain and anger. They usually find salvation via some loser older boyfriend. It's sadly ironic that they didn't like the rules at home, but they'll accept it from some guy who becomes increasingly more controlling.
`````Her Dad loves her to death; he was beyond himself with worry and grief when he heard that she was missing. The entire Pickton case is so fresh in the minds of everybody. You always think that this cannot happen to somebody that you know or within your extended family. It's so frustrating for the parents because there isn't much the one person can do unless the other individual is on board. After a certain grade they cannot be forced to go to school, so they cannot be declared a truant. As for the age of consent, they don't care as long as the guy she opts to get involved with isn't much older then her. It's so sickening that they will fine the crap out of you when you forget to buckle your seatbelt, but a kid can spiral absolutely out of control and out of reach and there's nothing that a parent can do.
`````For the time being, she's in the process of starting a new school and settling in with her Dad. I really hope it works out. This is a good kid who has no idea how quickly it can go bad. I guess I'll hear more when I visit my mother tomorrow (in a few hours, actually).
I hope this girl can work things out.
ReplyDeleteI just got in from visiting my parents. My relative phoned when I was there, so I got an update. The girl is with her Dad and she's happy right now. This poor guy; lately it's been so bad. A while back, he heard something where he lived. He stepped out and he got attacked. This nut bar, who was on meth or something, had just beaten up his girlfriend, then run outside and attacked somebody else. He then attacked my relative and left him for dead (rolled him down a snowbank as this is up north). When the cops showed up, he attacked the cop. For all of this, the P.O.S. got 14 months because he did a sob story about having a drug problem. Our system is the shits. My relative can no longer work, has 9 titanium plates in his face and has double vision. Everytime it gets cold, the plates get cold and hurt. Now, this thing with the girl. So, we talked for a while. Interesting though, I recalled that when he was 15, he hitchhiked over the Rocky Mountains to come see me because he missed me---we were very close. At the time I thought that it was so cool. Now I realize how stupid and dangerous it was. My Dad had to pay for him and his friend to take the bus back. It's amazing how our perspective changes with a few years time and how differently one sees things when (in his case), it's his kid doing the same thing. He had kids young, but he was always responsible with them. And I thought my cats were stressful...
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