were your parents totally bananas?!?

[mysterycolor]

ok, so i admit that there were times growing up where i wished i could make my parents disappear- maybe they'd get a little loud at a softball game or tell a weird story at a party... but never did they humiliate me or endanger my life like some of the weirdos you read about these days...
i saw this article in my local news- a woman went to her child's chuck-e-cheese birthday day party with a knife and a brick to attack the father and his new girlfriend... growing up i never encountered ANYTHING this bizarre... was it that the family unit was more intact in my youth (i'm now 28 y/o) so we didnt have baby-daddies in the rapid rate we do now? is our culture becoming more aggressive? or is it an illusion that there is an increase because it is easier to access news from not just you local venues but all around the world?

does anyone else cringe when the read things like this?
did you actually experience stuff like this growing up?
http://www.wpxi.com/news/news/local/fight-breaks-out-during-chuck-e-cheese-birthday-pa/nPpQP/

[Hannah]

This has nothing to do with "baby-daddies" and everything to do with a mentally unstable, violent person.

[mysterycolor]

This has nothing to do with "baby-daddies" and everything to do with a mentally unstable, violent person.
except that she was going there to attack her babies daddy and his girl friend... if people still got married and then had children that scenario wouldnt occur... when i was growing up the amount of kids i knew that had divorced parents let alone never-been-married parents was very small... times have certainly changed

[Drose18]

The worse my parents have ever done is not let me buy tmnt toys.

[Cure]

or is it an illusion that there is an increase because it is easier to access news from not just you local venues but all around the world?

Yeah. Between your salt and ice thread and now this, your "back in MY day..." attitude is pretty annoying.

[Master Splinter]

except that she was going there to attack her babies daddy and his girl friend... if people still got married and then had children that scenario wouldnt occur... when i was growing up the amount of kids i knew that had divorced parents let alone never-been-married parents was very small... times have certainly changed

I don't think it matters if it was a babies daddy or an ex husband, the lady is crazy. You don't do that regardless of the relationship status.

When you were growing up, which is most likely the same time I was growing up, divorce wasn't the socially acceptable norm. Even before our time domestic abuse was rarely reported, and if it was, the police wouldn't do much. Women wouldn't leave a man because of the fear of what would happen. Nowadays domestic abuse is a perfect reason for leaving a relationship, as well as infidelity, and many, many other reasons.

For our future generations I can only see it getting worse. Celebrities and their two day marriages is going to have a negative effect on their fans. Kids see this kind of stuff and think it's perfectly okay to commit to someone through marriage (possibly have a kid) and then just brush it off like it was another day. Lawyers don't help the cause either. They see a divorce as a pay day. Instead of talking a couple into getting counseling first they talk them straight into a divorce. Those lawyers got kids and hummers to feed. So they need that paycheck.

As far as anything crazy happening when I was a kid, of course there was always something wild going on. More than I would want to get into on this forum. Not everyone has a picture perfect life, so to see what this woman did as something relatively new and not common is crazy in itself. With the advent of the interwebs you now have easier access to all of these crazy stories. They have been going on for a long time, much longer than you or I have been alive. Without the internet we were all just oblivious.

-ms

[mysterycolor]

Yeah. Between your salt and ice thread and now this, your "back in MY day..." attitude is pretty annoying.
i like to think of it as a "can't believe the world is this way" attitude- but i am flattered that you take the time to check out all of threads :)

[愛]

Is this the part where we lose faith in humanity again? I get so confused these days, I can never read the signals.

My parents were loving and caring people, though I disagree with their opinions quite a bit now that I'm older.

[Mr.Turtle]

i dont know my parents very well. my bro n i only have each other...

[gobo]

were your parents totally bananas?!?
No. Mine were part pineapple as well.

[Jester]

When I read that you posted last I assumed there'd be puns. I was not disappointed... :D

[mysterycolor]

No. Mine were part pineapple as well.
i would have guessed mango

[KROW]

No. Mine were part pineapple as well.

They had to be something to make this fruit salad.

[BubblyShell22]

My parents would fight (and they still do at times), but it never got this far out of hand, and I doubt it ever would. I may not agree with my parents on some things, but at least they never did this type of thing.

[Katie]

It's not a condition of society. The woman clearly could not handle a break up in a mature fashion. That's some middle school bullsh!t......he broke up with me - I'll show him.

She sounds like a real needy, low self esteem sort.