I think the state of Pennsylvania should step in and make sure that Jon and Kate let up on the kids as far as meal tickets go. As far as I am concerned the Gosselin kids are a train wreck already and by the time someone does something, it will be too late.
I’m sorry to keep harping on this issue, but it blows my fucking mind how many people post on Evil Beet about how they think the state authorities need to do something about the clothed, housed, educated and healthy Gosselin children.
Like, what planet are you morons living on? Do you have any concept of the horrific situations CPS deals with every day on a grossly insufficient budget? Every. Single. Day these agencies see small children left alone in homes without heat or food while their mother heads out to score crack or turn tricks. They see children who don’t have winter jackets, who can’t count on a single meal each day — let alone the freaky healthy organic food Kate insists on for her children — they see kids who get their faces smacked every night when dad comes home drunk, kids who live in homes without a single book or learning tool, who never hear the words “I love you,” who’ve been wearing the same pair of shoes every day for a year, who know to go into the other room and shut the door when mom lights up the crack pipe or brings home a random dude. There are thousands and thousands of kids in these situations in the state of Pennsylvania, and all over the country. And you want CPS to dedicate their resources to the Gosselins? Are you insane???
I imagine that these are the same people who are angrily calling the radio stations and forcing them to bleep out terms in songs like “menage a trois” and “gun” and “chronic.” Like, it obviously angers me in the sense that I’m a great big huge fan of creative expression, but, more importantly, it’s a gross misuse of resources. The amount of time and money and effort that goes into getting the word “gun” bleeped out of a song on the radio could be headed to programs that actually prevent gun violence. The lyric “her boyfriend’s a dick / he brings a gun to school” is not in any way correlated with gun violence. You know what is? Drug addiction. And you know what’s not going to cure anyone of a drug addiction? Getting the word “chronic” off the radio. But recovery programs like Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous, when brought into jails and juvenile centers, do show an impact on jail recidivism. Non-profits — faith-based and otherwise — that reach out to teenagers on the streets and offer them a warm bed and a meal and a compassionate ear and drug rehabilitation options do see results. These are the things that prevent gun violence. If we took all the financial and emotional resources that we put into bleeping those stupid fucking words in those stupid fucking songs on the radio and put them toward programs that actually show results, we might be able to make a positive impact in the lives of our fellow human beings.
But, no. It’s more important that we live in our little bubbles, where the word “gun” is the primary cause of violence, and the worst parents in the world are Jon and Kate Gosselin. I’ll tell you what, State of Pennsylvania: While you’re on your way to take Mady and Cara and the rest of ‘em away from Jon and Kate, could you swing by this commenter’s house and force her to watch a few episodes of Intervention?
