Oh, no! Computer and Child Neglect.

**boefixepa** · 07-16-2007, 10:04 AM

Oh, that's so sad. I know quite a few people who have Video games additction though. I've known a few who have been kicked out of college, their grades where too bad. They'd spend their time playing games rather then going to class or studying. Once just recently, how can you do that to yourself!

I've also known people to lose their jobs...why?

I can't imagine it getting so bad that you almost kill your kids!!

**project15** · 07-16-2007, 02:26 PM

I have an internet/video gaming addiction every now and then so I know how bad it can be. Luckily it goes in phases and only lasts a few months at most. I remember skipping classes in college because I stayed up all night (literally, until 8am) playing. I don't think it would ever get bad enough to hurt anyone else though.

**PrincessPerky** · 07-17-2007, 08:07 AM

humph it isn't the fault of video games, it could have been TV or drugs or anything..people who neglect children will use any excuse to get out of the (very hard) work of raising kids...feeding them might seem easy, but well fed kids are a handful...so if you get past the initial demand for food you have a quiet kid.....easy to ignore...terrible, but people are so desperate not to have to parent that they will hide their head in sand (TV, video games, drink, drugs, gossip, whatever) to get away from it.

More often but not as terrible is a parent who will allow any amount of junk food and no prep food just to not have to do the hard work of encouraging vegetables and such...then they get the kid their own TV/computer/electronic toy, and head on off to the sand.

Computers/TVs/electronic other are not intrinsically bad...they are simply tools, both tools for education and tools for play. Use em right and you have a a great tool, use it wrong and you have a deadly weapon.

There is no excuse for ignoring kids..if you don't want em quit having em. (however do plan time to be alone and not be a parent every day, preferably a long stretch once a week or so)

**Broken Arrow** · 07-17-2007, 08:30 AM

Well said, princess.

**Gruntina** · 07-17-2007, 09:40 AM

PrincesPerkey you are so right. I almost could not speak or share about this article because it just made me so mad that "internet/game addition" was blamed for in the article when it was just something to soften the blow on the blunt word of Willful Neglect.

I just pray that the court can make a wise choice when choosing this case seeing this as an unhealthy addiction or willful neglect This choice may prolong the recovery of the children if the court will or will not give another chance by having the parents take a "recovery" in internet addiction or treat it faster by seeing it as willful neglect. I know I am being blunt and forigve me if I offend anyone.

Oh, no! Computer and Child Neglect.