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Son Sues Mother Over Facebook Posts
Most kids hate having their parents join in on a discussion on Facebook, but one 16-year-old in Arkansas hates it so much he has filed suit against his mother, charging her with harassment. From the article: "An Arkadelphia mother is charged with harassment for making entries on her son's Facebook page. Denise New's 16-year-old son filed charges against her last month and requested a no-contact order after he claims she posted slanderous entries about him on the social networking site. New says she was just trying to monitor what he was posting." Seems like he could just unfriend her.
Do parents "really" have any power over their kids today? I mean, if they whack them...the kid can call child services on them. Heck, if kid really wants to fsck their parents, just claim something sexual....and the parent is then pretty much branded for life, even if they did nothing wrong but try to discipline their child.
A child that realizes this power and is willing to wield it....what could a parent really do?
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
So you have time to write an opinion but no time to actually read the facts?
Seems somewhat selective distraction to me...
I think you underestimate how much you have to beat a kid to get child services on you. Not even after my mother had my 12 year old brother drive her home from the bar (because she was drunk), then beat him so badly he was in the hospital for 3 days would the courts award my father custody. It took all of that plus a few failed drug tests before she finally gave up custody of him. Who knows what the courts would have decided, but it takes a hell of a lot to get your child taken away from you. A whole hell of a lot.
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Just wanted to note that someone, possibly the mother, is posting numerous comments demonstrating that she is both illiterate and batshit crazy in the comments section. This isn't helping your case any, Ms. New!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Facebook is a really lame site. If he cares so much about her posts then just close the facebook account. You want to update your friends call them, talk to them. Facebook is the reason people are becoming anti social. For thousands of years people got along with out facebook and I bet we can get along again by just doing face to face or call to call social networking.
On the other hand, she shouldn't post on his wall but the simple solution is post on her wall, if she did steal his password he can change his password. So I don't see why he's making such a massive problem out of this. If he thought about a solution he could have this cleared up in 1 second.
You said, "Either the kid's worthless or the mom is" Very few people are truly worthless, and if they are, we as a society need to figure out if we let them down in some way.
Society isn't to blame for a person's mistakes, or a person's actions. Some successful people have risen from being poor and destitute, others have had life handed to them on a silver platter and threw it all away. We make choices, our own choices, and no one is to blame but us for the choices we make. Society isn't responsible for why this teen feels the urge to sue his mother - society has simply shown that it's possible... the individual is making it his own choice to sue. Others have felt the urge to communicate with their parents and work out a resolution to stop them from doing these things - was he not given the ability to talk with her? To Unfriend her? To mark his profile as private? These are HIS choices - not ours.
Very few people are held in a position where they HAVE to smoke, drink, do drugs, steal - maybe peer pressure pushes them to doing things once, but it's up to them to either stop or continue doing so. The choice is ultimately theirs. The choice this individual made, in this instance for this issue, was to sue.
Don't blame "Society" for his mistakes... "We" didn't let him down. He did it all by himself.
I don't use Facebook, but are you not able to edit your own posts? Or is it like Slashdot, written in stone once you hit submit?
On Facebook you can delete your posts, But you can't remove it from peoples thoughts
I work for a human services agency...I can find nothing redeeming...
These statements, in concert, are wholly irresponsible.
Do the responsible thing, and quit. Stop being so selfish, and let someone called to this line of work have your position.
I'm sure that's true. But most sad sack losers aren't born sociopaths. They had their loser-nature beaten into them by circumstance. Most of the real sociopathic parasites on the ass of society are CEOs or board members of Fortune 500 companies, not sad children of broken families. Blame the sociopaths, not their victims.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Try Google Earth. Arkadelphia is actually a college town. It isn't far from Little Rock.
Oh - wait - you think that everyone in Arkansas is an inbred illiterate, right? And, where are you from?
For your information, I moved to Arkansas 22 years ago to donate my DNA toward the prevention of inbreeding. Tens of thousands of other men and women have done the same. Inbreeding isn't a problem here any more.
Again, where are you from? I'm sure that other responsible people will be willing to inject some good DNA into the women in your part of the world.
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Reading his Farcebook page when he left it logged in I don't have a problem with. Changing the password, then posting defamatory remarks to the page while logged in as her son is grounds for a lawsuit... as is posting defamatory remarks about him on the News Stations comment page. Also, she contradicts herself in a way only truly mentally ill people can -- she is publicly defaming him because she is upset about unwise Facebook comments that can adversely affect his later life... WTF? She doesn't think her online announcements that her son speeds, has been arrested for drunk driving, and has been busted for pot might adversely affect his chances at employment?!?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
If it were not for the south man would not have walked on the moon.
Rocket engines? Developed and tested at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, AL
Apollo Rockets? Built in New Orleans, LA (among other places)
Cape Canaveral? Southern Florida
Mission Control? Houston, TX
Besides, you never hear of anyone retiring and moving *north*.