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Last year a nine year old boy made headlines nationwide. He had apparently been ingenious enough to sneak on two flights to try to get to Texas to be with his grandfather. While it was reported that he had stolen a neighbors car just before this incident it was not as widely publicized that he had stolen nine cars in five weeks. What probably bothered me the most from the whole incident was his mother leaving the county with him against a court order. She took him to California for the two of them to apprear on the Dr. Phil Show.

Recently the news reported the case of a 14 year old girl being involved in a car accident. She had been drinking and was driving the vehicle. Where was her mother? She was in the passenger seat of the car apparently passed out. The police say she was so intoxicated she said she was the sister and then the cousin of the driver.

I know things can quickly get out of control when you have children and a busy life. But how can a parent explain willfully breaking the law by not following a court order or by letting  anyone (let alone a child) drive a car while drunk? What were they thinking?