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Is it ever OK to cheat for your children? To do whatever it takes to give your kids something special or an advantage in life?
No. The answer is simple. No.
This story of Priscilla Ceballos in Dallas shows how mainstream it has become (http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=5863898)
Club Libby Lu offered a contest for tickets to the Hannah Montana concert. The essay contest winner would get 4 tickets to Albany, NY concert.
So mom Priscilla and her 6 year old daughter, Alexis, wrote an essay that began - “My daddy died this year in Iraq”.
The essay claimed a roadside bomb had killed her father, and Alexis beat out 1000 other entries to win.
One catch – the whole thing was a fake. Her father never even served in the military. In fact, he does not even live with them.
Turns out the mom passed off the handwriting as her daughter's in an effort to win the tickets.
This letter represents the worst moral behavior I can imagine for a parent outside of molestation issues – worse than neglect even.
Teaching kid that you do whatever it takes to get whatever you want - lying, cheating, deception are good because it is all about you - is about as morally vacant as I can imagine.
But, as despicable and deplorable as that behavior is,
what really gets me is this: The writer of the article for ABC news says,
“While some may understand the Ceballos' desperation to attain tickets to the hottest concerts to children and tweens, others believe her actions may have caused more harm to her daughter than if she had not won the tickets...”
Are you kidding me?
You cannot just say that this behavior is horribly wrong? Can a writer nowadays not even make that claim?
Are you telling me that this kind of morally vacant behavior is so mainstream that the best you can do is say "some may understand it." i for one do not understand it at all. Nor do I want to.
Why does the ABC writer feel obligated to pussyfoot around the issue, to be non-judgmental? Wow.
And to claim that the mother acted out of "desperation"? This is not desperation. Having no food is desperation. Having no home for your children is desperation. Having a father who actually did die in Iraq is desperation.
Desiring concert tickets for a 6 year old? That is not desperation.
I cannot decide which is worse - the mother's behavior or the writer's inability to call it what it is. Sad. Very sad.
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"This letter represents the worst moral behavior I can imagine for a parent outside of molestation issues – worse than neglect even."
I see Allen is back to his mindless hyperboles again this year.
Agreed!
Not much Rev. Erik can add to that, except to ask Rev. Hunt if he also thinks it's wrong to tell your children they are in danger of eternal torture if they don't applaud an ancient human sacrifice. That seems wrong too, but maybe it's just me.