Family anomalies, exposed.

It's weird, reading news on molester blaming his wife's bingo habit for his deviation -- http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/12/04/bingo.molester.ap/index.html -- or that a mother's calling the police to catch his son to opening Christmas presents a little too early in order give him a lesson -- http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/05/christmaspresent.arrest.ap/index.html

On the mother-calling-police story:

Now, the odd thing about the mother-calling-police story is two-fold. If the mother really believes that her son has ADHD, then calling the police is not going to help her son, and he's not likely to "learn the lesson". If according to the mother, the ADHD medication has no effect on her son, has she considered that perhaps her son isn't ADHD at all?

Now, they are important, because if he's not ADHD, then maybe, just maybe, that he's just a misbehaved boy, and perhaps the police call might have served some purpose. But if he's not ADHD, then the mother shouldn't have fed him ADHD at all.

But since she fed her the ADHD medications and mentioned it to the police too, she must have thought that he's ADHD. In that case, having the police thrown him to jail is *not* going to solve any problem.

These two underlying threads in the story were just so at odds, that I can only conclude that this mother is just clueless. All the same, the society got pulled, and taxpayers' money was spent to deal with silly deeds like this.

On the molester-blaming-acts-on-wifes-bingo-habit:

Did he even have the slightest belief that anyone would buy his line, that his molesting children since his wife was always away at the bingo parlor and that he was "angry". He's not just sick to the bone, but he's delusional. There can be no excuse whatsoever, for child molestation acts.

Observations:

One is, Americans are so used to blaming something/someone else for their problems. (Maybe not just Americans, but they do it in a high profile way.)

Second is, there is always a medical term/condition for any behavior that we don't want/need.

I would not make it a conclusive observation for this lazy mother in calling the police, to generalize on the populace. She is perhaps an odd one in the far end of the standard deviation curve on the left. :)