There is a huge fuss over whether or not Brittney Spears is a fit parent.  Too bad the scrutiny that she is receiving doesn’t happen with the majority of children.  I’m not taking her side.  I’m just saying that there are far worse situations that children face every day.  A bad parent isn’t the worse thing that a child can face.  If the parent is self-focused, self-absorbed, and selfish in all her ways, it doesn’t mean she doesn’t have the right to raise her kids.  If that was all it took then there would be hundreds of kids taken out of homes every day.

Bad parents don’t mean dangerous parents. 

There is a foster child that the government is threatening to send to his grandmother in Mexico because he needs to be “brought up in his own culture” (his dad is from Mexico).  The foster family wanted to adopt the boy (whom they have had for almost his entire life).  What’s even more disturbing is that the father (imprisoned for child molestation) will be living with the grandmother as well.

All children deserve a safe home.  Odds are pretty good that with as many people as surround the “stars” their kids will get protection.  Taking custody away from one bad parent and giving it to the other bad parent is only trauma for the children.  Besides, there is not law against being a “bad” parent; it’s the dangerous ones that we need to be concerned about.