Do you think that too many rich parents overindulge their children?

Question

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1044911/Public-schoolboy-drink-driver-ripped-cottage-gets-400-fine.html

The driver`s excuse is that he had gone on the drinking session after finding out one of his friends had died. (Yeah right)

Upper class tw.t. He eventually owned up after speaking to his mother!!

FFS - Get a taxi, if you want to go out and get pissed. It`s not as if they can`t afford one!!

His punishment a £400 fine and 200 hours community service. No wonder the guy whose home he destroyed is angry. "But not to worry, the driver is apparently "deeply mortified" What person living in the real world talks like that..

Answer 1

Yep! But the bloody Courts indulge the Hooray Henry's far more! It's the usual "one rule for one, etc" syndrome.

Answer 2

I have seen poor parents ruin their kids in exactly the same way so, it is not a problem with rich parents per se. The real problem is that the parents take the tack that 'My child can do no wrong' this starts in school when the child misbehaves the parent will not allow for a punishment to happen. When their sons knock a girl up they will say 'my son would never do that' even when a paternity test proves it.

Because of this attitude the child grows up thinking he or she can do what ever they want and get away with it. Mainly because they have never had to take on personal responsibility in their lives.

Answer 3

Rich kids are overindulged not only by their parents, but by the criminal justice system. They seem to be treated more leniently than their less well-off peers, and this case is no exception.

Another case in point, that I remember vividly, was this young guy. He attacked his wife on several occasions, slashing her with a knife, beating her, and later BRANDING her with a red hot iron because she hadn't ironed his shirt! Guess what his sentence was?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...

(A great advert for his employer as well. I mean, would you do business with a company that pays a salary of £90,000 to someone who looks and acts like this?)

Answer 4

i agree with the first post...the same thing happens with children in every class

Answer 5

The little toss pot should have to rebuild that couples home and his stupid parents be made to pay for it! Yes, rich people do cover for their children but only as much as 'poor' parents who go to court armed with a list of deprivation excuses for poor parenting when their child is in trouble - and of course it's never their fault - it's that of the stupid people who don't like the way their cretin behaves!

Answer 6

`You will always find that those with money and/or connections never make it to court.  Things are taken care of for them.  Life is not fair - it's not even balanced.

Answer 7

no, i just think parents from all social strata fail in their duty as parents

if you think unruly attitudes are the preserve of the rich you should reread your question

Answer 8

I think too many Parents- PERIOD- Overindulge their Children... -That's why there are so many young adults still living at home- who can't take care of themselves in the Real World...  :(

Answer 9

Oh shut up! There are lots of young guys who KILL people while drunk, who haven't been to private school! He's just a young teenage boy...in the local paper last week a similar boy from a local state school killed his 3 passengers in a crash trying to escape a pizza shop owner chasing him for running off without paying...

Answer 10

In answer, Yes.

A close relative of mine bought a car for his son for his 17th birthday - brand new, no second hand c**p for his boy, 3 months later he overturned the car on a short bend ploughed through a field - the fence post speared through the front windscreen narrowly missing his younger brother sitting in the back, who (thankfully) had the foresight to tie his seatbelt, what did daddy do, he bought the lad a brand spanking new car. (which this same arrogant lad overturned in a ditch 6 months later).

(shakes head in wonder)

I would be considered somewhat wealthy and could easily afford to overindulge my children, but, I do not, as I know to do that would be in essence - wrong.  

If my lads want something badly enough they have to prove to me they need it, not want it, need it, and if that is the case I have told them to work, earn, and save half of the cost of the item and I will gladly (if these terms are met) pay the remaining half.

- It doesn't happened very often as the fad for new things fades very, very fast.

Re your q (sorry got a bit carried away):

This young lad's punishment is not punishment, it is telling him that he can drink, drive, demolish a house and get away with it.

What I would like to know is, who is going to pay for the repairs to Mr. Gardiners home ? - probably his own insurance - which will quadruple next year.  Will Mr Boyd Snr pay - I think not.

Answer 11

Overindulging children has little to do with class. Chavs overindulge and fail to discipline children or set boundaries because they appear to think it's 'easier'. Drink driving is selfish and irresponsible whatever class of person does it. Your rant seems to be filled with resentment toward the upper class rather than with the crime.

Answer 12

you bet ye.

Answer 13

It's nothing at all to do with social class.  I used to work in partnership with the Probation Service and the idiots I met who had been driving whilst disqualified, speeding and drink driving were from the lower social classes.

Answer 14

Oh yes they are definitely overindulged spoilt brats. Look at Peaches Geldof...just exactly what has she done to be famous? She along with the others live off the back of their parents fame and fortune and its appalling.

Answer 15

No I think too many parents in general overindulge their children.

The Daily Mail loves stuff like this, it likes to start a class war.

Theres a section of road near where I live where theres a cottage that gets driven into at least twice a year. Never makes the Daily Mail because the driver usually aint an ex pupil from a £26,000 a year public school, but a lorry driver from Sunderland.

Answer 16

All I can say is - he looks like a total wanker.

Answer 17

There never was much chance of me overindulging mine, I never had enough money when they were growing up ! Judging from his picture, he would de described as "a real gobshite" where I come from ! It just goes to show that if Mummy and Daddy are rich you can get away with all sorts. Anyway this pillocks Dad is probably a fellow lodge member of the judge.

Answer 18

Have to say Jo, if some drunken twot wrecked my home and then got off with it for being a Ben Fogle-lookie-sound-a-likie..I would be miffed.

I do agree with Steph's comment about over indulgence being widespread regardless of class. However when you have that attitude of giving your kid everything AND you have serious money it creates the most obnoxious unhappy child ever.