Your children are rarely perfect. Perfection is pretty darn hard to achieve.
And, even short of perfection, it's often helpful to remember that things could be far worse.
That's true for sons, and it's true for daughters. Today brings an example of the latter:
"On October 26, 2016, Minor attempted to slap the victim, accusing the victim of
sleeping with Minor’s best friend. . . . On November 22, 2016, the probation department filed a report. The report
includes a recitation of Minor’s previous juvenile delinquency history, including an arrest
on February 26, 2013, for unlawful sex with a minor; an arrest on June 25, 2013, for
receiving stolen property; an arrest on September 1, 2015, for unlawful taking or driving of a vehicle; and an arrest on February 26, 2016, for fighting at school. It is noted in
the report that Minor had been suspended from school 13 times for defiance and fighting;
she had been expelled three times for nonattendance, truancy, and defiance; and she had
11 unexcused absences during the current school year."
Yeah. Not good.
As for her life prior to all that:
"Both Minor’s mother and father were drug addicts with criminal
histories. Minor reported her mother left her in the care of her father who was using
drugs who, in turn, left her in the care of her grandmother. It was reported that Minor
had been a victim of frequent sexual assaults by her father at the age of 13 and had
suffered physical abuse by both her father and grandmother.
Minor reported living in group homes beginning in 2012 when her grandmother no
longer wished to care for her."
Not a happy story at all.
