This is just one of the reasons why I dropped out of journalism school and ran pell-mell toward a mostly useless degree in English Lit. It's a pity-party article about fathers who have to spend Father's Day in jail. WTF? Should we let them out of prison because they have kids? "What's that? You knocked over a liquor store, but since you miss your little daughter we should let you out? Right then, off you go!" What about all the inmates who don't have kids, are they somehow worse people than the jerks who broke the law and happened to have fathered kids? This ticks me off because it implies that people who have children are somehow more deserving of compassion than those who do not. I'm so tired of that sentiment in our culture. Not to mention the whole blasé way the crimes of these dads are just glossed over - "serving time for violation of probation for a cocaine possession charge", "serving time for aggravated battery", "heroin possession charge". These are not nice guys who were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Here's a crazy idea, maybe they should have thought about their kids before committing crime?
