{"id":56,"date":"2002-08-31T17:18:15","date_gmt":"2002-08-31T17:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2002-08-31T17:18:15","modified_gmt":"2002-08-31T17:18:15","slug":"addicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/addicted\/","title":{"rendered":"Addicted??"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been working on this post all week…ok let me rephrase that, I’ve been MEANING to post this all week, however, life, work and other things have a way of interfering with such plans.
\nBlueWolf sent me a link on INTERNET addiction<\/a> this past week, which actually had reference to two women getting their kids taken away due to this problem…
\nwhen I read it, I literally felt sick..I could not for the LIFE of me understand how anyone could do that to their children. The excerpt from the page is at the bottom for those who want to go see what I’m talking about. (see the second instance)
\nI will admit, when I was married, I was looking for an escape, and I found it…not in the best way or place I could have I’m sure, however, my kids were always fed, had clean clothes, were clean themselves, and in bed on time. They were taken to school, picked up, and I was also secretary of the PTA (yea I hear you snickering out there!) and was the one responsible for taking them to any activities they were involved in (such as when my oldest played t-ball) also helped out in their classes when I could (this references when my oldest was in pre-k and I was ‘room mother’ for lack of a better term)..so while it was a problem, it was not near as big as he is trying to make it..
\nactually I think his biggest problem was not how I was regarding the children, it was regarding him<\/i>..my overuse of the INTERNET (so to speak) did not start until after<\/i> I asked for a divorce (almost 2 years before I left him!)…so I ask you, what do you really<\/i> think his problem with all of this is?
\nbut lets talk about now, which is the information they are asking about in the papers I got.
\ndo I spend allot of time on here? heck not near as much as I’m accused of.
\nask anyone, hell ask my kids, my computers not even TURNED ON when they are here..(and honestly when they are not what business is it of his?)
\nbeing on-line does not make someone a bad parent…neglecting your kids, be it due to being on-line or any other reason<\/i>..well now thats a different story isn’t it?
\nthoughts?<\/p>\n


\n“A study by Young (1997a) found the majority of those dependent on the Internet were not young, male users; rather, they were middle-aged women, particularly housewives. For example, a circuit judge stripped a mother of the custody of her two children after the judge claimed that she was so addicted to the Internet that she neglected her children (Campbell, 1997). This was the first time that Internet addiction was used as a key factor in a custody battle. The wife, a 40 year old woman, initially received custody of her and her husband’s two children, ages 7 and 8. After the divorce, the mother began spending most of her time isolated in her bedroom on the Internet, locked away from her children, and she reportedly neglected them. Thus, the judge ordered primary responsibility for the children to be turned over to her husband. In addition, a 24 year old woman whose three children, ages 2, 3, and 5 were removed from her home due to neglect (“Police Say Woman,” 1997). Her compulsion to surf the Internet reportedly broke up her marriage and the same compulsion later led authorities to remove her children. The mother neglected her children by locking them in their playroom — with broken glass, debris, and children’s handprints in human feces on the walls — so as not to be bothered while on the Internet. The mother was charged with three counts of child endangering”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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