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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not suggesting that they're good parents or that they care about their kids -- jury is out on that one -- but I think they likely care mightily about their reputations esp. at work. For that reason, I doubt they'll do something like this again. They're still awaiting a hearing so who knows what the punishment will be for this incident. But the humiliation of this will follow them around for a while -- as people talk behind their backs, there's a 50+ pg thread on them on DCUM, and every friend and acquaintance from coworkers to parents who don't even know them but see them at preschool will be looking at them extra hard when they're out with their kids to see how they treat them, how their kids interact with them etc. Plus I bet each of them has 3-4 people in their lives (not just family -- but people are work etc) who are blunt -- blunt enough that they have asked or will put them on the spot eventually and ask "so how did this happen. Why did you and DH/DW think this was ok?" All of this "attention" will keep them from doing this kind of thing again, though for the kids' sake I hope they aren't abusers because then they'll just make the kids' lives rough at home outside the public eye. I mean the kids are 2-3, not a lot of impulse control at that age even with the best behaved kids; I hope for the kids' sake that the parents don't hit etc. bc [b]now that they'll avoid the public for a while [/b][b]-- there will be a LOT of time at home esp on weekends when the kids will work their last nerve over normal childlike things and they'll have to deal.  [/quote]

Why should they? They'll just hire a sitter and go out to eat.. not that anyone knows what they look like to be 'avoiding the public' because of the scandal.

The worst repercussion of this story for them is not people talking behind their back, it's this story being picked up by major media all over the place.

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Of course they CAN hire a sitter -- hell they could have hired one that day too. It's a possibility that they won't do that in order to "spend time" with their kids -- to show the judge what good parents they are. It's for the best for everyone if they hire weekend sitters; they can either go out by themselves to adult events or even if they have nothing planned, send the kids out to the playground or playdates or whatever -- I just have this feeling that they may not be super patient or tolerant of their kids; I don't know what I feel that way, but if it's at all true -- I think they have the means and should not worry about what people will think (I mean - they couldn't think any worse of the couple) -- they should be getting sitters left and right to relieve the "burden."[/quote]

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