What's the problem with parents and adults

[jerseydevil]

There seems to be serious problems with parents raising their children. For instance - an 11 year old was kicked in the head by a parent at a little leagues game because he was cheering against her son's team.

In Long Island - 15 students are suspended from their high school's baseball team (the school no longer has a team) because during their trip down to Florida for "spring training" they ended up spending a night at a strip club. Some of the students were only sophomores (I have no idea how they were even able to get in). The parents are outraged because they said this decision by the school is threatening their child's sports "career" and preventing them from doing something they love.

Parents again are outraged by the suspension of thier children in the hazing incident. They said that by the school suspending them - they are preventing their children from enjoying the last couple of weeks and special events scheduled by the school prior to graduation. These teenage girls sent people to the hospital and the parents are more concerned about their children (the perpetrators) not being able to have fun during the last couple of weeks before graduation. Some of these parents are also accused of supplying alcohol to the girls. Some parents are going so far to even sue the school because they think they feel their children are being wrongly punished. My feeling is - they're lucky to still be able to participate in graduation which I think they are.

New Jersey, two years ago, passed laws concerning parents behavior at little league games. These laws resulted from the behaviour of parents on two opposing New York teams during a little league tornament - which ended up in a huge fight, with parents having to go to the hospital and several being arrested. Now parents can be forced to go to anger management, good sportsmanship training and even be arrested for extreme outbursts during childrens' sporting events. They can even be barred from attending their child's games.

A couple of years ago parents of a high school student - sponsored a pary for his baseball team - they hired a stripper and supplied alcohol for the team. The parents were home at the time but were supposedly not on the back porch where the action was. Needless to say - stripping wasn't the only thing that was going on on the back porch. The parents were brought up on child endangerment laws

In Indiana several years ago - these teen age boys were upset that a house was built on their hangout. Right before the house was finished - they trashed the place. They ripped out the plumping, they destroyed the bathroom, put holes in all the walls. Instead of the parents being outraged by the behaviour of their children - they blamed the owner and said there weren't any "NO Trespassing" signs up. They actually had the nerve to come on TV and say their children weren't responsible because there were no signs.

Some parents have a serious problem. They seem to either want to be their child's friend, or they live through their child or their child does nothing wrong and every one else is out to get them. People can't even enjoy a little league game without adults and parents ruining it anymore it seems like.