Quote Originally Posted by KestrelBike View Post
Not to mention, her smacking her kid doesn't exactly make up for the 14-18 years of non-parenting that led her kid to that point, anyways. Far from being a hero, that lady is a huge part of the problem.
You don't know that for sure. Sometimes, all the hard effort by one parent is undone by a community/circle of influence that says the opposite.