Ian wrote:
>
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=337699&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=
>
>
> ... to lose.
>
> Four guys rape a poor 16 year old girl, having lifted her off the
> street.
>
> If these guys are caught, they'll undoubtedly lose their jobs as high
> fliers in the city, or wherever.
>
> Except they haven't got high flying jobs in the city. They haven't
got
> anything most likely.
>
> That's right there's no reason at all for them to behave. Zero
reason.
> Not only that but there's probably no reason for them to be scared
> either, because they most likely haven't seen their father since
South
> London social workers forced the father's out of their lives for
> "Smacking them about for behaving like thugs."

The family court getstapo rarely suspects a father of actually knowing
what he's doing, and the results, as we see here, can be devastating.
It turns out this father actually did know what he was doing.  He was
"Smacking them about for behaving like thugs" because they were,
indeed, behaving like thugs.  If he'd been left to the work of raising
his kids, he may have turned them into something other than thugs.
Clearly the mother couldn't do it, or didn't, and most government case
workers aren't fit to make microwave pizza.

No one likes to see a kid get smacked, but with the really hard cases,
sometimes that's all that's left, and even then it doesn't have to be
constant.  After a few trips to the woodshed, a kid will typically see
where continued rebelliousness leads, and he'll be more likely to
listen to his Dad, or even his Mom, before things get there.  In some
kids, "time-outs," confinement to the room, or a confiscated bicycle
may work.  With others, there must be a fist behind the glove.  This
father knew it.  The judge didn't.

[...]

> him to become a rapist. A man's first instinct of belting the little
> bastard, brings him up to be a taxi driver.

If you talked to a number of highly successful men over a certain age,
most would tell you that Dad didn't tolerate a lot of bullshit.
Fathers once were able to discipline their kids as needed, and we got a
generation of productive men.  Then family courts stepped in, and we
got a lot of metrosexual waifs.



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