Winnipeg Boys Burn Teen Under Peer Pressure
October 22nd, 2006 | by MadHacktress |How disturbing? Two boys, aged eight and nine, pushed another boy, fourteen, in to a burning shed on punishment of being beaten up. The fourteen year old victim was born with spina bifida and had been the subject of ridicule before the fire.
These kids live in a public housing complex in Winnipeg; the Gilbert Park Housing Complex.
Not to judge, but the demographic of the complex of some 40 townhouse buildings, is about 90 per cent unemployed, and the children are noted for doing “[n]othing but setting fires and getting into trouble.”
I’m not a parent, and I don’t claim to have all the answers, but I just don’t understand how these children - especially children of unemployed parents - seem to be the ones who most run roughshod over the countryside. If 90% of the tenantry is unemployed how is it that these kids are getting away with these things?
What is so consuming the lives of these parents that they cannot be supervising their children? I just don’t get it.
When I lived in Ottawa it was the same. An area not too far away from where I lived contained a high percentage of unemployed families and they, too, seemed to be able to occupy their time with not working and not participating in the lives of their children.
Thankfully the young boy who was burned was rescued by a passer-by and will recover. Hopefully some fundamental changes will occur because of this event.
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Hate to say this but it’s true. I have lived in various, very low-income communities, in the past. My experience there has been that the majority of these families have alcohol & drug addictions. Thus the children are left to do as they wish without any kind of supervision or teaching of values. Many of these parents know how to work the “system” & supplement their incomes by nefarious undertakings so as to keep their addictions supplied. The kids are aware, very aware, of these undertakings & thus perform their own devious, & sometimes evil actions as they have no role models other than their parents & their parents friends. And the kids are mostly ignored or brought into doing breaking-the-law type of things to assist their parents in these undertakings.
I’m not saying ALL low-income parents & individuals are like this, but the percentage is very high on the negative side.
Just wanted to throw in my 2 cents worth on this subject.
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penlan
That’s F**ked.