The Good, Bad, and Ugly (Part Two)

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Can someone please explain to me why there are children sleeping in a portable building in Waco, Texas that are two (2) years old, twins, ALONE?  Now to make matters worse, the story in a Dallas paper stated the mother and boyfriend were staying in a mobile home nearby, and that the children sometimes slept in the portable building that was once utilized for storage. A fire broke out in the portable building, and thanksgiving night the twins, just five days short of their third birthday, now no longer will be here on this earth to be in a storage building alive, alone. 

So if you are reading this, please do one thing, for the sake of those two and others, if you know of a family that does not have adequate living arrangements, or if you know children are being left alone like the two above, please do something, but please do not make situations worse for parents that are trying!  Times are very hard for people these days, the economy has left people in situations that they have not had to face before, and sometimes people are left without a home.  Instead of calling DFS, on parents that are trying and that are at least providing shelter, food and care for their children, go to your refrigerator, take out that block of cheese, that gallon of milk that you haven't opened yet, that box of cereal that your kids won't eat; or that extra box that will expire and go into the trash....  give it to a family that is trying!  Now, with that being said, if children are being left alone unattended, are in danger, then obviously stronger measures need to be considered.  The first step is looking into the situation in depth, know the "facts", please do not "do guess work", "guess work harms families that are attempting to do the right thing, and appearances sometimes are VERY misleading.  Make sure you know a child is in danger, unattended, etc.  Then, contact the appropriate agency in your area.  The first step should be to contact the local church to ensure that someone can be located to take in a child that is taken into custody, that will provide a safe home, if at all possible, until appropriate steps are taken by authorities. 

WIth the rise of Meth use in America, the toll that it has on children of the users is horrendous, once caring and doting parents are turned into seemingless "mindless people, with one thought, to attain that next "high in search of the same high that burned out their pleasure center in the brain initially".  (For those of you unfamiliar with this epidemic, please google and look at the effects on children, on the users, the signs, etc.  Be mindful of people around you that may have fallen prey to this dreadful addiction, and please help their children, because quite honestly, they are not capable of doing so. 

The two lives lost on Thanksgiving night, should be a reminder to all of us of our responsibilities towards other human beings, whether it is a child, adult, or elderly person or animal.  Kindness and caring .... without those you have the bad and the ugly!

It is never ok to look the other way........

This is what life should have been like for the two that perished....
Hat's off to Raymond --- He's found the "real meaning of life".....




If only the world could be as near perfect as Axel's. We'd have a Happy World.