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Originally Posted by trndobrd
First off, what right do Scott and Rita have to enter someone's house at midnight without permission, then tell guests they must leave?
Second, what Mary was doing when they came over unexpectedly? Getting high? Drinking? No, she was cleaning house.
Did she leave the girls alone while she went to get dinner? Nope. Just because Scott and Rita don't know the guy watching the kids, doesn't mean he isn't trustworthy. That's a decision for the parent to make.
How do Scott and Rita know that Mary has been smoking up, drinking, sleeping around,etc.? Did she tell them, or is this something they are hearing third hand?
If my parents pulled a stunt like that, I would tell them to bud the F*** right back out.
Maybe next time they should hire a babysitter for an evening, take her out to dinner, tell her that they are concerned, and that they are willing to help do whatever to ensure the kids are taken care of.
They are a lot less likely to get shot doing that then storming into someone's home at midnight.
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While I agree with certain parts of what you are trying to intimate...it's not just that easy.
First....Mary isn't playing with a full deck or a full set of sensibility right now. First and foremost, as a Mother, her concern should be for the children. And I don't care how you may try and couch it, strange men sleeping on the sofa, beer in the house around kids who are being supervised by new people in their lives, and drugs in a life are all catalysts to tragedy.
As Grandparents, it is their duty to see that their grandchildren are kept out of harm's way. Wonder how they would have felt had thet just left Mary to "sort it out on her own", only later to find out the guys she left her kids with were sexual predators. F*** the "hurting her feelings" crap.
I am never one to believe grandparents shoud intervene in how parents are raising their children, unless of course those doing the parenting are clueless and classless. We spend too much time worrying about adults and their "feelings" that we forget that there are unseen victims left unprotected.
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