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Indolent

2011-10-24 10:01:39 PM

USA! USA! USA!

CitizenTed

2011-10-24 10:29:45 PM

Achi11es

2011-10-24 11:25:11 PM

We got tops in something? LIES! LIES! EXTREME SAFARI!!!!

ghare

2011-10-24 11:27:38 PM

Good thing we're cutting funding for education to be sure the rich keep their tax breaks, that's sure to work

davidphogan

2011-10-24 11:28:21 PM

The best part of killing your own children is that it's fun to make more.

Bondith

2011-10-24 11:28:28 PM

America has the worst record of child abuse in the industrialized world.

I'm assuming they're not including China in that.

Many studies suggest that mothers abuse and kill their infants and children at a higher rate than fathers. (This is probably due to the fact that women and mothers are more often the caregivers, so they have more overall contact with children -- both good and bad -- and are therefore overrepresented in child abuse cases.)

Post-partum depression, anyone? I'm led to believe that that's the source of instain mothers who kill thier babbies.

/poor babbies can't even frigth back?

Explodo

2011-10-24 11:29:54 PM

This makes me so sad.

Britney Spear's Speculum

2011-10-24 11:30:28 PM

Over half of all pregnancies in the US are unplanned.

Let that guide you when you RTFA.

cryinoutloud

2011-10-24 11:30:53 PM

Bondith:
Many studies suggest that mothers abuse and kill their infants and children at a higher rate than fathers. (This is probably due to the fact that women and mothers are more often the caregivers, so they have more overall contact with children -- both good and bad -- and are therefore overrepresented in child abuse cases.)
Post-partum depression, anyone? I'm led to believe that that's the source of instain mothers who kill thier babbies.
/poor babbies can't even frigth back?

Oh now you've done it--you're going to start one of those threads.

bunner

2011-10-24 11:30:58 PM

Well, shees. What do you expect?

We worship money. Kids cost money.

And what do you get? They cry a lot.

/wishes he was not serious.

Britney Spear's Speculum

2011-10-24 11:31:40 PM

Explodo: This makes me so sad.

You've been on fark since 2007 and have no greenlights.

That makes me sad.

SandMann

2011-10-24 11:32:14 PM

At least America is having kids. Birth rates in the other industrialized nations are lower.

gadian

2011-10-24 11:36:48 PM

Birth Control, sex ed., & abortion need to be more readily available and less shunned in our society.

Dirty Hot Linker

2011-10-24 11:38:21 PM

gadian: Birth Control, sex ed., & abortion need to be more readily available and less shunned in our society.

This

elffster

2011-10-24 11:39:25 PM

Britney Spear's Speculum: Explodo: This makes me so sad.

You've been on fark since 2007 and have no greenlights.

That makes me sad.

Hell I was trying since 2005 and finally just got 2...greenlights are hard. Now watch me make this drive...

Interrupted Infinitum

2011-10-24 11:39:29 PM

SandMann: At least America is having kids. Birth rates in the other industrialized nations are lower.

.....

Gunny Highway

2011-10-24 11:39:40 PM

We are also number one in abuse of child abusers. So we got that going for us.

Get Lost

2011-10-24 11:40:41 PM

FoxNews puts up a map every 2 years of "the most stupid kids" States. The Red States is for stupidest and the Blue States is for smartest.

/Excuse while I go and watch, 'Sesame Street: hardcore pr0n version for adults'.

AverageAmericanGuy

2011-10-24 11:42:13 PM

I'm going to go ahead and deflect criticism of America by pointing out that in China, a 2 year old was run over several times by various people and left to die as passersby ignored or deliberately avoided helping.

The baby died a couple days after this occurred.

Link PNSFW (new window)

Blaxabbath

2011-10-24 11:43:47 PM

Imagine if the stats recognized letting your kid get fat as shiat as child abuse....

Marine1

2011-10-24 11:44:19 PM

gadian: Birth Control, sex ed., & abortion need to be more readily available and less shunned in our society.

Birth control and sex ed. are things most people have no problems with. It's when you bring in the morally dubious option that it gets weird.

natmar_76

2011-10-24 11:44:57 PM

Asplenium

2011-10-24 11:45:07 PM

Britney Spear's Speculum: Explodo: This makes me so sad.

You've been on fark since 2007 and have no greenlights.

That makes me sad.

Personally, I don't come to Fark to compete for greenlights.

Explodo

2011-10-24 11:45:59 PM

Britney Spear's Speculum: Explodo: This makes me so sad.

You've been on fark since 2007 and have no greenlights.

That makes me sad.

I've never even looked to see if there was a way that I could submit one. It's not important to me that I get the "Fark Greenlight" badge.

freetomato

2011-10-24 11:46:59 PM

"Idiocracy" is fast becoming reality.

A while back in a documentary thread, several folks extolled "The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia" so I checked it out.

I was disgusted over and over, and I'm a fairly openminded chick whose hung out and partied with trailer park denizens and millionaires, literally. The baby that was in her basinette while her mama snorted? And then was barhopping days later while her baby was in state custody for having drugs in her system? That "mama" should have her twat sewn shut. Permanently.

Sorry. Feel very strongly about this kind of thing.

cryinoutloud

2011-10-24 11:47:15 PM

elffster: Hell I was trying since 2005 and finally just got 2...greenlights are hard. Now watch ~~me make~~ this drive...

It could be that you're too wordy.

AverageAmericanGuy: I'm going to go ahead and deflect criticism of America by pointing out that in China, a 2 year old was run over several times by various people and left to die as passersby ignored or deliberately avoided helping.
The baby died a couple days after this occurred.
Link PNSFW (new window)

It made the news, whattaya want?

Britney Spear's Speculum

2011-10-24 11:48:34 PM

Explodo: I've never even looked to see if there was a way that I could submit one. It's not important to me that I get the "Fark Greenlight" badge.

Then you'll never be an eagle scout.

urban.derelict

2011-10-24 11:48:52 PM

ghare: Good thing we're cutting funding for education to ~~be sure the rich keep their tax breaks, that's sure to work~~
keep the occupations going

Explodo

2011-10-24 11:50:41 PM

Britney Spear's Speculum: Explodo: I've never even looked to see if there was a way that I could submit one. It's not important to me that I get the "Fark Greenlight" badge.

Then you'll never be an eagle scout.

I tried the scouts, but when they started pushing their religion bullshiat on the first day I left.

Pumpernickel bread

2011-10-24 11:51:04 PM

I think our decades as the richest country has been to our detriment here. In emerging economies, the only thing for kids to do after school is homework, etc. American kids have Wiis, Playstations, personal computers, cell phones, and just goof off until they fall asleep.

So, if my theory holds, as American families become poorer and are no longer able to buy time wasting gadgets for their snowflakes, academic performance will improve.

Gwyrddu

2011-10-24 11:51:43 PM

AverageAmericanGuy: I'm going to go ahead and deflect criticism of America by pointing out that in China, a 2 year old was run over several times by various people and left to die as passersby ignored or deliberately avoided helping.

The baby died a couple days after this occurred.

Link PNSFW (new window)

That's actually not that unusual, and certainly isn't limited to the Chinese. It is just another case of the Bystander Effect

urban.derelict

2011-10-24 11:51:55 PM

Get Lost: /Excuse while I go and watch, 'Sesame Street: hardcore pr0n version for adults'.

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Britney Spear's Speculum

2011-10-24 11:52:12 PM

Explodo: Britney Spear's Speculum: Explodo: I've never even looked to see if there was a way that I could submit one. It's not important to me that I get the "Fark Greenlight" badge.

Then you'll never be an eagle scout.

I tried the scouts, but when they started pushing their religion bullshiat on the first day I left.

Good man, err...woman....err man, sorry.

Explodo

2011-10-24 11:54:10 PM

Britney Spear's Speculum: Explodo: Britney Spear's Speculum: Explodo: I've never even looked to see if there was a way that I could submit one. It's not important to me that I get the "Fark Greenlight" badge.

Then you'll never be an eagle scout.

I tried the scouts, but when they started pushing their religion bullshiat on the first day I left.

Good man, err...woman....err man, sorry.

It's Explodo, not Exploda.

LowbrowDeluxe

2011-10-24 11:55:09 PM

Pumpernickel bread: I think our decades as the richest country has been to our detriment here. In emerging economies, the only thing for kids to do after school is homework, etc. American kids have Wiis, Playstations, personal computers, cell phones, and just goof off until they fall asleep.

So, if my theory holds, as American families become poorer and are no longer able to buy time wasting gadgets for their snowflakes, academic performance will improve.

....shhh. No one tell him.

Gunny Highway

2011-10-24 11:55:24 PM

FizixJunkee

2011-10-24 11:55:39 PM

I wonder if America's "Christian" approach towards children (i.e., that it's okay to beat them in the name of "discipline") contributes to abuse?

JackalRabbit

2011-10-24 11:56:46 PM

Get Lost: FoxNews puts up a map every 2 years of "the most stupid kids" States. The Red States is for stupidest and the Blue States is for smartest.

/Excuse while I go and watch, 'Sesame Street: hardcore pr0n version for adults'.

So the red means most stupidest......now I see.

Gunny Highway

2011-10-24 11:59:22 PM

FizixJunkee: I wonder if America's "Christian" approach towards children (i.e., that it's okay to beat them in the name of "discipline") contributes to abuse?

I must have grown up in a weird part of the country where the scouts are not religious and christian kids werent beat in the name of discipline.

I am lucky I guess.

whiterrabbit

2011-10-25 12:01:17 AM

Americans have been so obsessed with "Tab A goes into slot B or C?" that the kids feel unsupervised and make a government of their peers...which leads to Idiocracy eventually. There seems to be a lack of impetus for excellence...

I think I may be turning into a Nihilist....

Korzine

2011-10-25 12:04:03 AM

Gunny Highway: Explodo: Britney Spear's Speculum: Explodo: I've never even looked to see if there was a way that I could submit one. It's not important to me that I get the "Fark Greenlight" badge.

Then you'll never be an eagle scout.

I tried the scouts, but when they started pushing their religion bullshiat on the first day I left.

The scouts are religious? Not the scouts I was in and not any of the kid that continued to participate through Eagle.

Mine weren't either, though I was eventually asked to leave and not come back. Apparently after a year or two you're supposed to at least be a tenderfoot or something. Though to be fair my scout leader had warned me before hand I would be asked to leave if I had failed to make a certain level by a certain time.

JackalRabbit

2011-10-25 12:08:36 AM

whiterrabbit: I think I may be turning into a Nihilist....

Apparently, you aren't a golfer.

Frederick

2011-10-25 12:10:34 AM

Gunny Highway: FizixJunkee: I wonder if America's "Christian" approach towards children (i.e., that it's okay to beat them in the name of "discipline") contributes to abuse?

I must have grown up in a weird part of the country where the scouts are not religious and christian kids werent beat in the name of discipline.

I am lucky I guess.

Christianity was very much a part of boy scouts when I joined. I didnt dig it so I left.

"The Boy Scouts of America (BSA), one of the largest private youth organizations in the United States, has policies which prohibit atheists and agnostics from membership in its Scouting program..."

If you believe Wiki.

Gunny Highway

2011-10-25 12:11:09 AM

whiterrabbit: I think I may be turning into a Nihilist....

That must be exhausting

Gunny Highway

2011-10-25 12:12:21 AM

Frederick: "The Boy Scouts of America (BSA), one of the largest private youth organizations in the United States, has policies which prohibit atheists and agnostics from membership in its Scouting program..."

If you believe Wiki.

Weird. Not my experience at all.

blanchae

2011-10-25 12:19:37 AM

The reason that the USA is number one because they have the best system for detecting and reporting abuse. Most other countries just don't report it or ignore the abuse.

boomm

2011-10-25 12:21:13 AM

elffster: Britney Spear's Speculum: Explodo: This makes me so sad.

You've been on fark since 2007 and have no greenlights.

That makes me sad.

Hell I was trying since 2005 and finally just got 2...greenlights are hard. Now watch me make this drive...

Post-post depression?

My favorite fortune I got in a cookie, "ideas are like children, there are no so precious as your own." {in bed}

/no green-lits, but I stopped trying after the honeymoon

frestcrallen

2011-10-25 12:24:55 AM