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Caylee - The Latest Spotlight
I haven’t followed the story of the missing girl Caylee, but noticed a headline concerning it today. It noted that the girl’s mother initially wanted to give the child up for adoption, but she opted not to due to pressure from her family.
This doesn’t come to a huge surprise since it’s a pretty common occurrence for people to make life changing and altering decisions under pressure from the people who are within their immediate circle. I mean look how many people go through with a marriage just because they can’t get their deposit back or wouldn’t want to make 200 people figure out what else they can do on a Saturday.
I’m not sure how many children go missing in this country, but I know there’s a lot, and many of them aren’t missing due to the stranger living next door. If the case that the media is putting out there is accurate, then the odds are that this woman killed her daughter.
Women who cannot handle the responsibility of children are looked at in the worst possible light. There’s nothing really worse than being called a “bad mom” - other than being called a sex offender, and murderer.
So who do we blame in these unfortunate circumstances? We blame the person that actually abuses or murders the child. However doesn’t everyone really play a part in these tragedies? Everyone from the family of the individuals to the world around us who express ideas that parenthood or motherhood isn’t as huge of a responsibility as what it is. Where is the father of this child? Is he not accountable in some way?
Yet there is only one person on the chopping block right now.
The world isn’t too forgiving when everyone doesn’t stack up to the job of parent and if the time comes where someone doesn’t feel they can handle the role or responsibility, what are their options? It’s much easier to try and grin and bear it or sweep it under the rug, than to live a life with the Scarlett letter of shame on your chest. Of course that’s exactly what most of these parents usually end up doing when the load gets to heavy and they snap.
