Finally, a glimmer of sanity in the world of continuous insanity. I don't know if you caught this one but a Spanish judge recently revoked the parental rights of a father, one Luis Miguel Gomez, for taking his 10--year old son to run with the bulls in Pamplona. This isn't like taking your kid to the water park or the amusement park where they have thrill rides and you don't watch them closely enough. This year alone 11 people where injured in this strange ritual to find your own testosterone.
What got me in addition to the brazen stupidity of Luis is his total disregard for the rules. According to city regulations no one under 18 years of age can run with the bulls. As with most people Luis obviously thought that those rules were intended for other people and that he and his 10-year old son were somehow exempt from such childish limitations on deadly Spanish fun and frivolity.
I believe this judge has established precedent for taking away parental rights for parents that abdicate their role in raising their children to protect them from things that can hurt or kill them. We see it all of the time and it is becoming
Recently I went to see an R-rated movie where a young couple had brought their two very small children. One couldn't have been 4-years old and the other one was still small enough to require holding. The movie obviously scared the children enough to make them cry and when I complained to the theater manager he said there was nothing he could do about it. Well now there is!
Take a look around your everyday experience and let me know if you see anything that places children in harms way. We all know about the hundreds of toxic compounds that our young people are continuously exposed to and while that is inexcusable it is much harder for a parent to control and protect their children from.
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