http://www.cbsnews.com/news/somali-woma ... ound-dead/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... g-pin.html
A fascinating piece of writing I found in the related links:
There are many broken homes like this, led by mothers and fathers who have no clue how to raise children, and no concern for the damage their actions cause and the tortured futures their children will surely endure as a result of the behaviours and beliefs they learn in that home, by their actions.
It’s so damaging to these children because they expect better.
They expect to be loved and cared for, praised and supported. They expect their mothers to be Moms, and their fathers to be Dads; to be there for them and help them, to get along, to make it work, to be the parents they see in other homes – their friends’, the neighbours’, or on TV.
They expect their parents to provide a stable life, and the conditions for a promising future – whether it’s difficult or not, whether they can or not. They expect a real home, where there is food on the table, and laughter in the air; where they aren’t yet burdened with the stresses and realities of adult life.
That they’re sheltered from it.
That they’re safe.
Cause kids just want to be able to not care about such things; to be free to wake up every day with no concern about how they will eat or where they will stay, when their father will stumble home, or if he’ll come home at all. They want to live as others live. They want to be a kid while still a kid and a teen while still a teen.
They want a family. They expect a family.
But, sometimes…that’s just not reality.
It’s not possible.
As horrible as that is. As painful as that may be.
Cause the truth is…
…their bad parent or parents are not capable of providing such a sweet, innocent, and nurturing home in the condition they are in – with the addictions they feed, or the anger they hold; with the abilities they don’t have, or the misguided beliefs they’ve been given.
Because parents have problems like you have problems. And the origins of their personal failings are the same as those of yours.
It was the company they kept, and the experiences they lived. It was the influences they allowed, and the lessons they never learned. It was the thoughts they let in, and the beliefs they came to hold as theirs.
It was the home they grew up in, they life they’ve lived.
Because we are our circumstances – when we know of nothing better.