Licence to kill?

I must admit that I don't normally read the "red-top" newspapers, but when I heard the discussion on the radio this morning about this article, I had to go straight to the source and read it for myself.

Several thoughts ran through my head as I listened and read. None particularly complimentary.

This girl, who at the age of 24 isn't really a girl any more and should definitely know better, must be either:-

a) naive,

b) uneducated,

c) stupid, or

d) lazy.

The thing that scares me a little more is that there's a fifth possibility. Maybe she doesn't care. Maybe she's using her children and her story for her own personal gain. If that's the case, then I believe her children should be taken into care.

Somebody needs to tell this woman that with her behaviour she's condemning her children to a lifetime of obesity, illness, disease and mental anguish. And all of that probably before they even finish primary school.

As parents we need to take care of our children's present. But paramount in our minds must also be our responsibility to ensure that their futures are the best we can provide too.

This woman seems to think that as they are her children and it's her life, she has a licence to do whatever she pleases. But I, for one, don't believe that she has a licence to kill....