I called the cops

[XCashier]

I've never understood why so many parents blame their kids for the parents' mistakes.

Said "parents" are too immature to accept their own faults; they're still in the childish blame-the-scapegoat stage. And the kids get screwed up because of it.

[blas]

And some parents never grow up, despite having a child, which is supposed to get you to grow up and expand your mind and responsibilities.

[Amanita]

That poor kid. I don't even want kids but I just can't stand to see them treated that way.

[Racket_Man]

The first time I was over my friends house his dad actually said to me "so I see you've met my little mistake", we were shocked that he would say that to me my first visit there. We went down to his room and he told me his parents told him he was a mistake that ruined a good situation when he was 6, because he wanted to know why he couldn't spend more time with his dad.

I did the same thing for my parents. I was their "little mistake". they were about to enter the empty nest phase of their lives (siblings were reaching the end of HS age)when OPPPPPPSSSSSS memopause baby (me) pops up.

althout they never said anything directly to me or anyone else, the resentment showed through loud and clear. I was the one who called myself the OPPPPSSSS or mistake baby.

[Zellie Crescent]

His situation is a little different, his mom who he's living with is his dads mistress, he overhears the amount of shit talking going on about her and feels bad. He said the second he moves out he's gonna go to visit his dads wife and makes sure she gets everything in the divorce that's sure to follow, I told him to go for it all the way and bring a whole shit ton of evidence with him, everything he can think of. He said he's good and ready to make their life miserable and shitty since they did that with him since day 1. I told him I'd chip in for an apartment since every time I've been there since (his dad is there 4 days out of the week) he's been joking (not really) about how he better not bring any mistakes home.

[IStillNeedToSeeYourBadge]

Wow.

Bad mom and lazy cop. The cop of course COULD have done something (example: talked to witnesses, filled out a report etc) but chose not to. I mean, if he did not witness a shooting and someone dies something tells me it is still a crime.

Sorry you had to witness that.

Not necessarily. The cop could only do so much if there were no obvious injuries to the child, just subjective testimony. Besides, in most places it is the law that unless death or harm is imminent, the police are required to contact the child welfare agency (as apparently happened here) for them to conduct he actual investigation.