A lot of ordinary people have lost their children to drugs or suicide, too. I don't think the location, per se, has much to do with it. Anyway if you brought up a child in the slums of a big city, they would have a lot of exposure to drugs and crime.
I think many nepo babies are so spoiled they never grow up....
As I was growing up... I grew up not in the slums.. but in the city.... however all my paternal relatives and many of my friends lived in the slums, and we were always over there... and we never as far as I know neither I nor any of my siblings took drugs..
That is wonderful, HD! But times, they have changed a lot. Plus, I think the cultures of our countries are somewhat different. We have a long-engrained gun culture that makes things in the projects even worse. Sometimes the projects are so bad the police refuse to go there -- this was true several decades ago, and for good reason.
True, but this was a knife attack.
No...I understand your point...but I grew up in a city that during my youth , and before that my fathers' youth.. was dubbed the most dangerous city in all of Europe....
Generally true, but to be clear, my generalized statement was not focused on "hard drugs" in which your input is certainly more true for. For instance, a person that occasionally uses Valium when confronted with say addressing a business meeting with others. For most, not an issue. While others might start using it regularly when they don't otherwise need to, because of a general lack of self control and or common sense, or other siituational factors, that has nothing to do with mental illness.
A friend of mine was a lawyer in a big firm. She had to go to parties given by the partners. She was so shocked that cocaine was freely available. It is illegal and lawyers are officers of the court! I was shocked too!
That was my point. We all know that the poorest sections of the big cities are usually dangerous places to raise children, with lots of gangs and exposure to drugs. I was saying that, as bad as those areas can be, it might, sometimes, be even harder to raise children in a super wealthy area like the Reiner's neighborhood because the kids are going to big parties where alcohol and drugs flow freely and the kids have lots of spending money.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
My husband and I both worked ( he still works there) in the UK TV major networks..cocaine is easier to get hold of than cigarettes or sweets ( candy)... almost everyone is taking it... same in the media at large.. nespapers et al...
that's because generally speaking they don't ''raise'' their own children. Mostly they're raised by Nannies, and Boarding schools...
Well,, that is a bridge too far for me. There is just no way. I always looked at hard drugs as though they could injure my brain. I can think of no worse fate.
Yes, even the wealthy can find it difficult. BUT their children get exposed to lots of things the average American child has no clue about. Some are great and some are bad. The lifestyle is certainly something with which I am not familiar.
BBC for me.. and several commercial channels until I was 58.. ex O/H is one of the studio bosses at the BBC
That eerily look in his eyes may be due to the medications he's taking. He looks rather spooky to me.Look at this family picture, you can see in the eyes of the murdering son... that something is awry
