Okay jumping back into the past a bit. I'm sure everyone in sometime in their life have said "Well, those people should never breed!" Yes I am talking about Stupid People. Not people with learning disabilities or anything like that. No I'm talking about people who generally know better yet choose to ignore common sense. The kind of people that when you're around them, you actually feel your brain cells wilting away in horrable agony.

Generally when I refer to stupid people, I'm referring to people who do stupid things and expect to get away with them. Like for example, telling a judge that they should award you 1000.00 to get back on your feet and that you shouldn't have to work because you're trying to go to school..all this during a child custody case..Stupid right?

Well, I'm getting ahead of myself..let me hop backwards. This little rant is actually about my nephew, who is biologically my cousin..On the Next Jerry Springer? Perhaps, but let me explain. My cousin..well we'll lable him P so not to name actual names, we wouldn't want anyone to be embarressed now would we? My cousin got entangled with this girl, and I say girl because she has the maturity level of a 13 yr old, and ended up marrying her. They had three kids together, niether one of them could ever hold a job..well I take that back.. My cousin P could never hold a job..she never attempted to get a job. They got kicked out of three homes because they couldn't make rent and ended up leeching off of my grandmother.

Eventually my family stepped in and took the kids away and set up a charge for neglect. My Aunt took the youngest child, one of my other cousins took the oldest, and my sister took the middle child. Now let me explain how incredibly special these children are and why it pisses me off that they, much less any other child should've been put into this situation. L, my nephew/cousin, is a beautiful little cherub like boy with golden hair and some of the most beautiful blue/grey eyes you'll ever see. His smile just lights up a room and he has the cutest little laugh. I remember when he was much much smaller...he never smiled. I mean never. We couldn't have coaxed a smile out of him to save the planet. His older sister AM, was a bit more chipper, but she had a short fuse and lost her temper and got angry really fast, almost violently angry. The youngest, well we never saw much of her until after she was in the care of my Aunt, so I can't really say much for her personality before hand.

After several months of just having the kids live with them they decided to terminate parental rights and file for full adoption. My couins wife threw a fit. She claimed that she thought we were tying to help her out by taking the kids for awhile and then we stabbed her in the back by trying to keep them perminately. She never once tried to contact them, no birthday cards, no christmas cards, nothing. She didn't know she had to in order to keep her parental rights but redardless if she loved her kids as much as she said..she would;ve made contact. The judge at the time stated that he would give her another trial run, but she had to maintain contact with her kids. He then set up visitation parameters for them, but also stated that she had to pay child support since they were still her kids.. Everyone was upset, and things just went from bad to worse.

L started having nightmares, AM starting acting violently again..and the youngest just stopped talking.

Don't worry folks, my story has a happy ending. A few months later my cousin's wife, well we'll call her J, went back to the judge and stated that she shouldn't have to pay child support or maintain a job because she was trying to go to school. She also stated that the court should give her 1000.00 just to help her get back on her feet.

The judge laughed at her, and instead court ordered her to maintain a 40 hr work week making at least 6.00/hr. She quit after two weeks and relinquished her parental rights. We found out later from my cousin P that J was under the impression that if she had the kids she'd never have to work again because she would qualify for wellfare. Needless to say..she was stupid. That ends this little rant. Thanks for listening :)