Actually it's the Decent thing, and a few religions have Christianity beat on this subject (Sikh for ones)
One of my wife's friends has kicked her daughter out, the girl isn't bad, she fought in school (kicked some serious ass actually)
and ended up dropping, out, busted her leg showing her horses so she was unable to attend WV Challenge Academy (the NG military academy)
and then generally failed to make any progress in life.
Eventually her and her mom fought, and she's been homeless for the last 8 months couch surfing friends houses, her mom is the type that can only like one daughter at a time, and she was pretty much there to baby sit her brother, who's now 11 and doesn't need a babysitter. She has issues, she reads at about a 3rd grade level (Kanawah County, Herbert Hoover High (for those in WV) and defiantly has learning disabilities, her mom and dad just racked it up to her being lazy and stupid.
My wife and I have always told her that are there for her, and if she needs place, call.
Well she did.
So, now how do you get a new minted 18 year old, who knows NOTHING about life, across the country, and into a high school completion program
I don't want us to be just another place to sleep, I'd rather her actually get a life, and progress to being an adult, I have seen WAY to many of my wife's freinds and relatives get drawn down into the bullshit of drugs and stupidity that seem to permeate certain places in WV, too many people with real potential get a kid, welfare and pills. I don't want her to go that way She could help us, and would almost be a god send, BUT, I want more for her than to baby sit my kids, I can do that myself(thank you VERY much) and I don't want to invite someone else's problems either.
Guess this is kinda a rant. I'm waiting on her to tell me she has a FOR SURE ride to Charleston's Yeager airport before I buy the ticket. Neither her mom or sisters will lift a damn finger, hell the poor girl doesn't even have a ID
One of my wife's friends has kicked her daughter out, the girl isn't bad, she fought in school (kicked some serious ass actually)
and ended up dropping, out, busted her leg showing her horses so she was unable to attend WV Challenge Academy (the NG military academy)
and then generally failed to make any progress in life.
Eventually her and her mom fought, and she's been homeless for the last 8 months couch surfing friends houses, her mom is the type that can only like one daughter at a time, and she was pretty much there to baby sit her brother, who's now 11 and doesn't need a babysitter. She has issues, she reads at about a 3rd grade level (Kanawah County, Herbert Hoover High (for those in WV) and defiantly has learning disabilities, her mom and dad just racked it up to her being lazy and stupid.
My wife and I have always told her that are there for her, and if she needs place, call.
Well she did.
So, now how do you get a new minted 18 year old, who knows NOTHING about life, across the country, and into a high school completion program
I don't want us to be just another place to sleep, I'd rather her actually get a life, and progress to being an adult, I have seen WAY to many of my wife's freinds and relatives get drawn down into the bullshit of drugs and stupidity that seem to permeate certain places in WV, too many people with real potential get a kid, welfare and pills. I don't want her to go that way She could help us, and would almost be a god send, BUT, I want more for her than to baby sit my kids, I can do that myself(thank you VERY much) and I don't want to invite someone else's problems either.
Guess this is kinda a rant. I'm waiting on her to tell me she has a FOR SURE ride to Charleston's Yeager airport before I buy the ticket. Neither her mom or sisters will lift a damn finger, hell the poor girl doesn't even have a ID