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Dude, it freaks me out too. I have a Viva La Vida Shirt enough time taking care of him and making sure his needs are met and I’m 40 with 3 other kids from my ex-wife. Odds are 99% of the time things will go relatively well-enough if her oldest watched our son for an extended period of time by himself. And by that I mean, no injuries (beyond diaper rash or other temporary conditions) or death and his basic needs being taken care of. This kid, the 13 year old, literally turned the stovetop on to make ramen the other day while I was there and went back to his room and closed the door. I had to remind him that his water was boiling 5 minutes later. That’s to be expected, because he’s 13, but I would also expect him to treat our own son with the same irresponsible absentmindedness… What’s additionally worrisome about the situation is that the 13 year old has been spending more time taking care of his middle half-brother, who’s 4 from another father, than their mom has since he was 3 and the oldest being 12. My ex is totally grooming her oldest to be the de-facto parent in her absence while she’s at work and until recently her middle son was being fed nothing but junk food while she was away. It’s turned into a Lord of the Flies situation with her middle son, where the oldest kid is raising him and there just isn’t a lot of actual parenting occurring.

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funny you should mention ulcers. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Like a Viva La Vida Shirt that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.” my favorite books on US history are Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X Kendi (this one is about racism in america) and A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn (this one is a history of labor in the US). They are both awesome and both leave you just repeatedly shaking your head in dismay

