is it a good or bad idea to let a 14 year old visit her mom in jail?

[IndyDave1776]

With all due respect sir, you are a part of that "staff" crowd I was speaking of above. No offense, but your work jaded you.

I didn't stick around long enough for that. In fact, my refusal to conform to the deformation that it induces is the reason why my continued employment became an untenable situation. It took a number of years of unrelated experiences for me to become as I am today.

 

[5000]

I think I am going to take her. Just need to find a good time



I hear in addition to seeing her mom, she can also learn a lot from a visit. What are the main things she can learn. How jails and law enforcement work?

 

[churchmouse]

I think I am going to take her. Just need to find a good time



I hear in addition to seeing her mom, she can also learn a lot from a visit. What are the main things she can learn. How jails and law enforcement work?

#1 would be stay out of those places. Do not get involved with situations or people that will lead to jail time.

 

[actaeon277]

I think I am going to take her. Just need to find a good time



I hear in addition to seeing her mom, she can also learn a lot from a visit. What are the main things she can learn. How jails and law enforcement work?

That's it's not as cool as she may think.

 

[Dirtebiker]

I doubt she thinks it's cool!

 

[actaeon277]

Kids have a way of changing or minimizing things.

 

[5000]

I'm guessing it will make it more real to her? Before this to is jail was pretty much the place the "bad guys" went.

 

[IndyDave1776]

I'm guessing it will make it more real to her? Before this to is jail was pretty much the place the "bad guys" went.

Good point. I would hope that it would reinforce on her that the line between we 'normal' people and the 'bad guys' is not nearly so broad and heavy as most of us would like to believe, and is often based on relatively arbitrary criteria. Further, she would be well served to understand that we have reached the point at which, unlike the past in which one had to make a clear, willful, and deliberate choice to break the law, we must make a point of proactively seeing to our compliance with the law which no longer requires going out of one's way to engage in wrong-doing in order to find yourself a 'guest' of the .gov.

 

[5000]

That's it's not as cool as she may think.

Im sure sure she doesn't think it is cool. Why would she?

 

[actaeon277]

That's it's not as cool as she may think.

Im sure sure she doesn't think it is cool. Why would she?

Kids have a way of changing or minimizing things.

I've seen kids think "jail's not so bad", "dead bodies are cool", etc. Usually coming from those who haven't experienced.

 

[bwframe]

How did the visit go? What did your daughter think of it?

 

[5000]

How did the visit go? What did your daughter think of it?

Visit hasn't happened simply because we have not found a good time. It wi happen though