Topic : 07/17 Living on a Prayer

I agree with what was said about if the parents want to live that way, that's fine.  This is America, you can do what you want.  But those kids have no say in the situation.  If I worked for DSS in that county, I'd have a minivan over at that household pronto and say, "Sorry, charlie, you're not doing your job."  Really, this is how parents who are *drug addicts* run their households; kids are taken away from them in a MINUTE.  I said this is America, you can do what you want - I take that back.  Right now, you cannot build a house (or maybe even buy one) without electricity, running water, heating and cooling, etc.  A house like this would never pass inspection.  Why then are these people allowed to live this way?  Doesn't make sense to me.

Tracy

I agree with what was said about if the parents want to live that way, that's fine.  This is America, you can do what you want.  But those kids have no say in the situation.  If I worked for DSS in that county, I'd have a minivan over at that household pronto and say, "Sorry, charlie, you're not doing your job."  Really, this is how parents who are *drug addicts* run their households; kids are taken away from them in a MINUTE.  I said this is America, you can do what you want - I take that back.  Right now, you cannot build a house (or maybe even buy one) without electricity, running water, heating and cooling, etc.  A house like this would never pass inspection.  Why then are these people allowed to live this way?  Doesn't make sense to me.

Tracy

Hey, I read your story about the sorry husband who wouldn't pay child support.  Don't you live in a state where if the father does not support his kids he goes to jail?  If so, why not pursue that?  I know your kids are grown, but maybe you could get back child support anyway and use the money to aid your failing health.  Just an idea, and I don't even know if it will work, but it may be worth talking to somebody about.  I'm very sorry for what you had to go through, but it sounds like you served as a great example to your kids.  He'll get his in the afterlife, don't you worry.

Tracy

I don't get it.  The whole hour and Dr. Phil, his invited guest the man from dream????? in Calif, nor the family of this couple ever touched on whether this man, the father of seven, feels he is too proud to have earned income from manual labor.  This would have served multiple purposes.  One being it would have addressed to this man that his proud behavior is not becoming a Christian.  He may have an education but that doesn't mean manual labor should be beneath his dignity.  You do what you have to in support of your family within the confines of the law.  I saw pride as his major hang-up. 

On the college educated mother's side I saw convenience.  She could have stopped bearing children before they had so many and she could have worked.  Now for her to say she has a 2 week old child and is unable to take on a job is convenient for her. 

I don't off-hand know of a reference in the Bible  but for them to take material practical gifts really intended to be for the kids and that were not monetary and sell them for pennies on a dollar is very dispictable.  So what happened to the money they got from the sale of the bunk beds anyway?  How did they put the money  to better use than providing them beds to sleep in?

Dr. Phil just makes sense.  You cannot keep throwing money at these people.  We all must be good stewards of what God blesses us with.  Let them be good stewards then and they will see the fruits of their labor pay off.  Although Dr. Phil was insensed by this man's using God the way he does, he gave him the benefit of the doubt that he does this wrong unknowingly.  However, does he know now?  I doubt it.  He really needs a thinking adjustment.  He needs to fellowship and those people to listen and provide support and encouragement from scripture the way Dr. Phil suggested and always pray first and pray after that no man or woman misunderstand the word of God shared before these bretheren.

Based on their education levels, they have a combined better than average intelligence but they don't show it. 

What I find interesting is that DrPhil had a show about a rich spoiled teenage girl who goes and gets knocked up and is rewarded by DrPhil with an SUV?!

I didn't hear DrPhil mentioning that he was going to help this family in any way.

Surely they are more deserving of help than some knocked up spoiled rich kid, rich spoiled drug addict etc.

DrPhil needs to have more compassion for poor people people and stop spoiling the already spoiled!!!!