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<blockquote data-quote="Crayola13" data-source="post: 751587" data-attributes="member: 21066"><p>I know how embarrassing this is. People in my family have had their names in the newspaper for shoplifting. The sign on the window at the store listed the names of people who had written bad checks. I share their last name. The person in my family who did this is in his late thirties, and only recently has he had steady employment. Before now, I think he had worked a total of five months in his whole life. I remember when he got suspended for smoking pot in high school. Instead of enforcing a real punishment, his parents thought putting him in a Christian school would straighten him out. It didn't. His name was in the newspaper because he got caught smoking crack. No interest in work until his inheritance was all spent. $400 phones, satellite radio, etc.</p><p></p><p>People in my husband's extended family have also been in trouble for shoplifting. One of them was 14 when all this started. The kid's parents should have laid down the law, but chose to let it go. From that point, his behavior became worse. The police were showing up at his house an average of every two weeks because he was getting into fights with his father and brother. He was suspended several times from school. His GPA was as low as it can get. Eventually, his behavior escalated to worse things. He was shot at during a drug deal, but the bullet didn't but him. He was selling and smoking pot. He got his girlfriend pregnant. He knew his grandparents didn't approve of abortion, so he offered to do yard work because he "wanted some extra money". When his grandma found out she had unknowingly paid for an abortion, she was furious. Then the kid went on trial for a very serious, violent crime which I won't go into detail about. His car was almost repossessed.</p><p></p><p>Bottom line: When you let this behavior go unpunished, it escalates into more serious behavior. Shoplifting is a misdemeanor, but what happens down the road are charges much worse than a misdemeanor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crayola13, post: 751587, member: 21066"] I know how embarrassing this is. People in my family have had their names in the newspaper for shoplifting. The sign on the window at the store listed the names of people who had written bad checks. I share their last name. The person in my family who did this is in his late thirties, and only recently has he had steady employment. Before now, I think he had worked a total of five months in his whole life. I remember when he got suspended for smoking pot in high school. Instead of enforcing a real punishment, his parents thought putting him in a Christian school would straighten him out. It didn't. His name was in the newspaper because he got caught smoking crack. No interest in work until his inheritance was all spent. $400 phones, satellite radio, etc. People in my husband's extended family have also been in trouble for shoplifting. One of them was 14 when all this started. The kid's parents should have laid down the law, but chose to let it go. From that point, his behavior became worse. The police were showing up at his house an average of every two weeks because he was getting into fights with his father and brother. He was suspended several times from school. His GPA was as low as it can get. Eventually, his behavior escalated to worse things. He was shot at during a drug deal, but the bullet didn't but him. He was selling and smoking pot. He got his girlfriend pregnant. He knew his grandparents didn't approve of abortion, so he offered to do yard work because he "wanted some extra money". When his grandma found out she had unknowingly paid for an abortion, she was furious. Then the kid went on trial for a very serious, violent crime which I won't go into detail about. His car was almost repossessed. Bottom line: When you let this behavior go unpunished, it escalates into more serious behavior. Shoplifting is a misdemeanor, but what happens down the road are charges much worse than a misdemeanor. [/QUOTE]
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