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Originally Posted by KSig RC
I doubt the adult knew the actual extent to which the child was unstable - I doubt anyone did, quite honestly, or different actions would have been taken.
Also, being cruel is not the same as causing someone's suicide - this is beside the fact that many breakups end with one person intentionally inflicting hurt on another. I think the analogy rings far more true than you give it credit.
Child vs. Adult is one thing, but that's also part of my point - we're overreacting because of the adult's involvement, when we should be focusing on the painful and preventable loss of a child who likely did not receive the treatment, support or attention she needed.
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I am sure that the woman in question didn't mean for it to go this far. Cynically or naively I guess,I would just like to assume that an adult should know better from the start than to deliberately set up a situation like this. I'm not even talking about the suicide. I am raising a child around this age (11) and as an adult,I can't even imagine setting up one of her friends in a like situation. I would call it unthinkable to me not in the horrific sense but that I know that I would never even think of something like this as a means to problem solving.
I work with small children for a living so it is very difficult for me to view this situation unemotionally. I can't get past the "what the hell were they thinking" stage.
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