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On Line Hoax Gone too Far?

Mirah

Mirah

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21844203

A 13 year old girl commits suicide after being taunted by a friends mom on line. The mother pretended to be a boy in order to find out secrets about her own child. When the mom called it off, the girl became upset and killed herself.

Megan Meier hanged herself in her bedroom on Oct. 16, 2006, and died the next day. She was described as a "bubbly, goofy" girl who loved spending time with her friends, watching movies and fishing with her dad.
Megan had been on medication, but had been upbeat before her death, her mother said, after striking up a relationship on MySpace with Josh Evans about six weeks before her death.
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I read about that in People this week. How sad.

It's hard to believe parents could do something so stupid especially a mother but I had a friend whose mother used to make fun of me when I was little. It happens, it's ridiculous but it happens.
 
Mirah said:
The mother pretended to be a boy in order to find out secrets about her own child.
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Was this the excuse the mother gave? I had read she had done it simply to get revenge on the now-dead girl because she had rejected her daughter's friendship.
 
What's really galling everyone is that, technically, there's no law yet to fit her crime. She's been charged with nothing and probably never will be, unless some sort of "troll legislation" is passed.

I'd imagine this would be of interest to members here.
 
This is what happens when we have parents that decide to meddle and not actually ask questions. God, I hate parents who, when they see their child is an emotional wreck, decide to go dig anyways, ignoring the feelings of their offspring.
This reinforces my opinon that all parents, during one point of their life before child birth, should take a parenting class. Basically, the parents mother killed her. Sadly, if their Catholics, that adds another damn double whammy seeing as sucidie=hell.
What a conflicted situation.
 
Slander actually is actionable, especially in a loss situation.

She just needs a good shark lawyer to scare those fucking wonders, they'll settle.
 
Elnidfse said:
This is what happens when we have parents that decide to meddle and not actually ask questions. God, I hate parents who, when they see their child is an emotional wreck, decide to go dig anyways, ignoring the feelings of their offspring.
This reinforces my opinon that all parents, during one point of their life before child birth, should take a parenting class. Basically, the parents mother killed her. Sadly, if their Catholics, that adds another damn double whammy seeing as sucidie=hell.
What a conflicted situation.
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It's a double edged sword or a very fine line. If you don't meddle and stupidly trust that you're the world's greatest parent with the world's greatest kid you end up with a drug addict living in your basement while you pay their bills and child support and probably unwittingly give him or her drug money. If you meddle too much you smother them and they don't trust you at all.

Speaking as the mothering Aunt to my niece and nephew I meddle like a mo-fo. I don't give a damn, there are no closed doors and private chats. Kids have nothing to hide.
 
Shitty Dual said:
Like trying to decipher your bizarro prose.
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Haha. There, my good sir, I have taken humor into your post. Now, I ask you, are you done now?

Laker_Girl said:
Speaking as the mothering Aunt to my niece and nephew I meddle like a mo-fo. I don't give a damn, there are no closed doors and private chats. Kids have nothing to hide.
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Ha, no closed doors? I think there should always be a certain degree of privacy. If a kid has no privacy in their home life, is it a wonder they leave the house often? Is it a wonder they get into trouble outside the house? The thing about this matter is that we do not know the real side of our "loved ones" until they no longer consider you a figure of authority.

On the subject of chats, I have to agree. There should be, indeed, no private chats for a kid under the age of 18, where they can actually decipher between a good idea and a stupid one. Don't get me wrong, there are some smart teen's out there, but today's generation is the ever so present proof that the average moral standard has declining.

Curiosity about your children should be called for in order to be a good parent, yes. However, there should always be a line. Now while I'm not saying you should follow your little girl as she and her date go off to wherever, you should set a line and some standards for the people she's allowed to date. I don't believe extreme's should be taken, however, I DO believe some means should be taken. As the residing person in charge, its your standard to set the bar for your childs growth seeing that they, the future, will be the ones who contribute to your country in the future.

A parent assuming a false identity and interfeering in her daughters life, that's something that I can't really call for. Now, I'm not saying its the parent's fault, not entirely. I no that if I was to do the same thing to a 12 year old cousin of mine he wouldn't go off the wire and hang himself. Children are responsible for their own actions too. While a parent is indeed the cause of this, she isn't the only one responsible.

That is the point that I'm trying to make.
 
Elnidfse said:
Ha, no closed doors? I think there should always be a certain degree of privacy.
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They have as much privacy as a 7 and 9 year old need. Oddly, as they grow that privacy will become less and less. There will be no Internet access in their bedrooms, that's completely unnecessary. Anything you can't say on the computer in the family room in plain sight doesn't need to be said.

Kids are growing up entirely too fast these days. I look at pictures of me when I was seven and I look at pictures of my niece and it's amazing how young and innocent I look and how young and innocent she doesn't. What a difference 25 years can make.
 
Laker_Girl said:
They have as much privacy as a 7 and 9 year old need. Oddly, as they grow that privacy will become less and less. There will be no Internet access in their bedrooms, that's completely unnecessary. Anything you can't say on the computer in the family room in plain sight doesn't need to be said.

Kids are growing up entirely too fast these days. I look at pictures of me when I was seven and I look at pictures of my niece and it's amazing how young and innocent I look and how young and innocent she doesn't. What a difference 25 years can make.
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Quick question, do you know why European's don't Binge drink as much as Americans? This is a real question by the way.
 
Elnidfse said:
Quick question, do you know why European's don't Binge drink as much as Americans? This is a real question by the way.
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I hadn't realized Americans binge drink more than Europeans but no I don't know why, do tell.
 
Laker_Girl said:
I hadn't realized Americans binge drink more than Europeans but no I don't know why, do tell.
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Because, unlike us, they kids are raised in an alcohol friendly environment. Whilst they are allowed our teens have probably have chances far and between, and seeing that these times are few, they binge. It makes sense really, when you prohibit someone from doing something, when they get the chance to actually do it, they abuse it.

Stripping privacy away from your kids as they get older, as opposed to trusting them more, while having the obvious side effect of them being really nit-picky about their privacy when they grow up, will cause them to abuse the things that they have few chances to actually do. Now of course I seriously doubt it'll go to such an extreme, but it IS something to think about.
 
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You just like to see long paragraphs of type from yourself.

Why did you ask the question, knowing damn well that you were gonna write a novel as explanation?
 
Well first, that was a situational question, my friend. Also, I asked that question to better explain my point. I felt it would be easier to speak with a fact on my backing to better push the point I was, in the first place, trying to make.

Also, about my posting ethic, this is hardly the place to try to spark up a flame war. I'm trying to hold a good conversation, not pull things from the troll playground.
 
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