Okay, time for a social commentary rant. I live in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, and a story that made the wires locally involved a bunch of Haddonfield, NJ, teens who partied to a degree that I have never before seen. Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Monica Yank Kinney is all over the story, which began in the Spring:
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/monica_yant_kinney/20070527_Monica_Yant_Kinney___Haddonfield_teens_going_to_extremes.html
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/monica_yant_kinney/20070617_Monica_Yant_Kinney___Haddonfield_tells_parents__Dont_be_parties_to_risk.html
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/monica_yant_kinney/20070627_Monica_Yant_Kinney___Dont_Snitch_comes_to_suburbs.html
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/monica_yant_kinney/20070819_Monica_Yant_Kinney___A_blackout_on_truth_in_Haddonfield.html
Look, we all have our pasts. We all did things which we wish we hadn't done. That's a fact of life and a part of growing up. What these kids did, however, was nothing like anything I ever did. Defecating in a piano? Filling a supersoaker with urine and spraying it around the house? Masturbating on stuffed animals? Who does things like that?
Worse yet, the parents of the kids are completely covering up what the kids did. Lawyers were immediately hired, and non-apology apologies were half-heartedly offered. Where is the sense of accountability? Where are the parents telling the kids, "You messed up, now you face up to what you did"?
Look, no one expects the parents to completely hang their own flesh and blood out to dry, but is it so much to ask for them to let their kids know that what they did was wrong, instead of whining about how "rumours" are ruining their kids lives? What about the parents whose home was wrecked by these little savages?
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