Tuesday, February 5, 2013
But the fiancee of one of the victims was not so forgiving.
Friends and family of two men strangled to death in a Hickory Street house packed a courtroom for the alleged killers' arraignment this morning. But for the accused, only one man showed up for his child's day in court. Bill McKee, father of 18-year-old Bethany McKee, was the only one in the gallery for the two young men and two young women charged with the Hickory Street double murder. McKee watched his daughter plead not guilty, endured the insults of a grieving fiancee, and then spoke of his own pain. "It just sucks that whole families have to go through this," McKee, a Shorewood resident, said. "You can do the best job raising children, but you don't know what's going to come out. "It's not the parents," said McKee, whose 18-year-old …
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
What would Dr. Martin Luther King say about the six youths who brutally ganged up on another guy? Are parents to blame?
While much of the country was getting ready to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, a group of hoodlums jumped a 17-year-old boy in a Chicago. They called him the N-word and Asian slurs. Someone recorded Sunday's 3-minute attack, then posted it on YouTube. This is bullying to the extreme. I can't help but ask myself "where are the parents in all this?" First of all, we don't know yet how old these thugs are. Still, that doesn't seem to sway my opinion if they are 16 or legally adults. Where did they learn that it was OK to call people racial slurs? Where did they learn it was OK to hit defenseless people in the face with shoes, knees and chunks of ice? Maybe the parents didn't outright teach these things to their sons. Yet, they aren't off the …
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Are we breeding generations of kids who won't know how to take care of themselves? Or worse, who couldn't take care of us?
If the teenagers I am meeting are any indication of what the future holds, then I am scared to death about getting old. I'd better do more to take care of myself so I won't need to rely on the up-and-coming generation. So many — too many — of the kids I know are lazy and irresponsible. Not all, mind you. There are many great kids out there. But by and large, I'm having a tough time resisting knocking sense into some of these kids I meet. After spending lots of time talking with teacher friends of mine, I am convinced our society has an epidemic of irresponsible kids. And parents, it's our fault, plain and simple. We have attended several graduation and birthday parties this summer already and have more to come. I have watched adults work …
Hartz
10:34 pm on Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Blue, I have to agree. I can't imagine what all of the parents are going through. No matter what our children do, we love them unconditionally. I think people forget what that means at times. The parents who didn't go were most likely afraid for their lives or for the lives of their younger children. We will never know why they weren't there, but it may not have been because they're cowards. I … more ›