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Worried about a neighbour's kid.

  • 10-07-2014 7:36pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    Earlier today I saw a kid from around the corner hanging around with a (now clean) heroin addict who is just out of jail.

    The kid in question is about 14, and is very impressionable.

    Do I tell his mother that her son is hanging around with a scumbag who mugged a woman in her 80's, or do I sit back and mind my own business?

    By all accounts, the junkie is clean at the moment, but, as I said, the 14 year old is very impressionable.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,656 ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    Do I tell his mother that her son is hanging around with a scumbag who mugged a woman in her 80's, or do I sit back and mind my own business?

    You do neither. You tell the child's mother the facts without painting it one way or the other - that her son is spending a lot of time with this guy and that you think that she should know about it. The man has the right to not be automatically be labelled as a scumbag junkie if he's making genuine efforts to turn his life around, however, regardless of the man's history, the kid is a minor and his mother has the right to know if her son is spending an unhealthy amount of time with this person and act accordingly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,394 ✭✭✭ManOfMystery


    I agree, tell the mother but try to keep it factual and not cast dispersions on the man. For all you know he could be preaching to this 14yr old about how drugs ruined his life, and to avoid them.


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