Do any other parents out there cry when you hear on the news or read in the paper about the death of a child?

Question

I'm a 48 year old dad and I HATE when something bad happens to a kid. People that rape and hurt or kill kids should have the parents dispense justice.

Answer 1

I'm pregnant with my first and I bawl when I hear of bad things happening to babies and children. Normally I'm not quite so emotional, could be the hormones, but it does always make me very angry to hear of things happening to poor innocent children.  

Answer 2

I have to be really emotional to cry, but it makes my stomach ache when I hear about terrible things happening to children.  I find it heart-wrenching when I hear about an adult dying and leaving children behind, too, especially when they're serving our country.

Answer 3

I don't cry, but it is disturbing. It is most disturbing when people harm a child (in any way) and then think they will not get caught or be punished for it. It gives that person a sense they can do anything they want and that is sickening.  

Answer 4

I think I get more frustrated with myself that I cannot do anything to prevent this. There is plenty a person can do but I can't find the time to do it and it frustrates me that this happens and the whole world isn't crying and freaking out about it. Instead everyone says oh how sad and goes back to eating their dinner. We are so accustomed to seeing and hearing these things they have become normal for us. Which is terrible. People should be knocking down doors and doing something when this happens. But we are all so wrapped up in our own lives we just sit back and allow it to happen. I know I should try to help out and do something and I will. with a newborn and being pregnant it's kinda tough although it is no excuse. I think we all need to step up instead of shrugging it off and change things!

Answer 5

I agree.  Before i was a parent I really didn't think of it much, now though I get teary about it all the time.  I always think "what if that was my kid".  My sister-in-law lost her 18 month old daughter to a heart infection very suddenly, and I think about her everyday and I just don't know how she manages.  I can't even comprehend the pain of loosing your child.  

Answer 6

My mother gets wayy over dramatic with that. She hates that...The new lifetime movie Little Girl Lost about a little girl abducted from her home; just knowing that it was a true story my mother could barely contain herself!

Answer 7

It's very painful.

Answer 8

Yes it upsets me. I think most parents think its horrible but it could have been their child too and thats why it hurts.

And I agree that parents should dispense justice. What we could do to a person that hurt our child is so much worse than any court will do!

Answer 9

no   but if it is esp. horrific i do feel really bad/angry...

Answer 10

Listen buddy, you are not alone. I'm a police officer and a father of 3. Everyday I see some bad stuff that breaks my heart. Some of it involves kids and some of it doesnt. But it's the stuff involving kids and the elderly that affects me the most. Kids killing kids, parents beating kids, kids disappearing. Sometimes it's all too much, you know. There are nights that I cry and toss and turn all night because all I can see is the face of the little girl that drowned in the pool. Or the face of the little boy who wouldnt stop crying so his father shook him to death. I can see my kids faces on all these kids and its a very haunting feeling.

Answer 11

I agree.

I don't physically cry, just get a little down.

Answer 12

Yes. I am 28 and a very emotional person on top of being a mother...and I litterally grieve and cry for people/children that I don't even know and I say a prayer and I am not even that religious...