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Mom Calls Cops on Her Fighting Kids: Would You?
Mom pushed to her limit?
Okay, so most parents get pushed to their limits by their kids at one time or another, but would you ever call the cops on your children?
A Salem, Massachusetts mom hit the breaking point after her kids were fighting so much, she called the cops to come and arrest her two teenagers. She told police, “Arrest them both — I can’t take this anymore.”
According to reports, she’s a single mom with five kids and their constant bickering drove her over the edge.
Of course, now comes some concern that she left the kids while they were fighting to go “out for a while to run a few errands,” according to the police report.
She later changed her tune, saying, “They only started fighting while I was out.”
In this woman’s case, maybe it was better to call on the police to help before she lost it.
Her 15-year-old son will be summoned to court for punching his 8-year-old sister. The 16-year-old daughter was pushed to the ground by her brother when she tried to protect the 8-year-old.
Police have notified the state Department of Children and Families of the incident.
I’ve got two kids, am not a single parent, and have totally had my buttons pushed by what I like to call “the bicker twins.”
By mid-week of the winter break, my kids were needling each other so much, I felt like I couldn’t take it.
For all of the yelling I had been doing to break up their squabbling lately, I finally said (calmly, go figure), “I can’t referee this fighting anymore. It’s making me cranky and tired and I can’t deal with it.”
They stopped, thankfully… without police intervention.
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4 Comments
michelle commented on Jan 08 12 at 11:14 amThis is clearly a mother who’s in over her head and lacks not only parenting skills but basic common sense. The police should have arrested HER and a judge should have made her attend parenting classes.
Sanriobaby =^.^= commented on Jan 09 12 at 5:28 pmClearly, this mother reached her limit and in my opinion, it was better for her to call the cops than to completely snap and cause harm to either herself or her kids. There have been far too many stories of parents killing thier own kids b/c they just can’t take it anymore. Unless you have a household of kids, especially teens, physically going at it on a regular basis, you have no idea how incredibly stressful it can be. I doubt any parent really wants to have thier own child arrested, but sometimes, it’s really the only option.
Heather commented on Jan 09 12 at 8:46 pmI once had to call the cops on my then 16yo step-daughter for beating up on her little brother (then 8). I tried to step in, and wound up with a black eye and broken glasses. I tried calling her mom (she lived in the same town) but she didn’t answer. My only option was to call the cops. I doubt this woman wanted to have her kids arrested, but maybe it really was her only option – and her last resort. When a kid is bigger and stronger than their mother (or other care-giver) as in my case, there is only so much you can do to stop a kid who is acting violently without ending up physically injured in a significant way. You do what you have to to make sure you’re capable of taking care of ALL of your children, and sometimes, that means calling the cops to step in when you’re out of options.
TB commented on Jan 09 12 at 10:14 pmI’m with Heather. My older brother was bigger than my mother by the time he was a teen and to step betweent he two of us meant she got hurt too. You can’t always be there, especially as a single mom. At least know the court might mandate therapy that would be paid for by the state. Something that a single mom of 5 probably could not afford and could not get her teenage son to go too if she could.
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