So a video on facebook was floating around of this mother and her daughter on a subway/train in Philadelphia (aka Route 66). A bystander is recording the video of this mother nodding off repeatedly and the daughter talking to her mother and trying to keep her mother upright. From the footage you can identify that the mother is nodding from being high on drugs. My guess is that she's probably a heroin or meth junkie. Because this video received so much attention SEPTA caught wind of the situation followed by man people outraging that this child should be removed from her mother.

I just wanted to share my thoughts on this matter.

1. If you do drugs, don't have children.
2. If you have children, don't do drugs.
3. If you do drugs and you have children, you're retarded.

There is nothing in this world more depressing than children who have parents who are either absent from their life, dead or completely ignorant of responsibility. The woman in that video is alive but her choices will make her absent from this child's life. Her choices will most likely lead her to death before her time. And the second she decided to begin doing drugs made her ignorant of responsibility.

When you take on the responsibility of raising a child and you put them in a situation like the one in that video, you set yourself up for a lot of red flags. One, you aren't in a state of mind to take care of yourself, so how do you expect to take care of a child? That child, that life form of innocence who has no concept of drugs and being high etc... has no idea what is happening to you. All they know is that their mother keeps "falling asleep" and perhaps the mother yells at the child, or neglects the child. Maybe she fails to feed the child so she can afford her drugs. Maybe she sells her body to get the drugs. Whatever the case may be, the mother is not fit to take care of a child.

Sure, some parents can function properly under the influence. A two-faced kind of life. Hard working independent individual by day, basement junkie by night. Whatever. Doesn't matter. Because that girl decided to get wrecked and also put her and her daughter in a public situation where anyone and their brother could record them and throw it up on youtube several things are going to happen.

1. As if the mother didn't have enough problems already, the whole world knows she's a junkie. The fact that she made a facebook status, just promotes who she is and how she acts.
2. Because of her state of being, her child has been removed from her. She claims they took away the greatest thing in her life. Well apparently she wasn't great enough for you to stop doing drugs. I get that it might be EXTREMELY difficult to quit something you're addicted to. But they make clinics and rehab for a reason and maybe you should consider getting into one if you ever want to see your child again.
3. This child is gonna be broken because her mother is a piece of shit. She's probably going to be sent to an orphanage where she'll be adopted. Then her adopted parents will have to explain to her that she got taken away from her birth mother because her mother decided that heroin was more important than she was. Then that child will probably discover the drug world and get sucked into it. Or maybe she'll be intelligent and avoid drugs because she doesn't want to end up like her stupid mom.

Maybe I'm being harsh towards this mother. But in the video the mother only looks to be maybe 20 - 23 years old. The kids looks like she's 6 years old. So if you get pregnant at a young age, and you are a drug addict, I'm sorry but you don't need to be having kids. If you can't take care of yourself properly, don't try and take care of other people.

People throw around their bodies too easily these days. Everywhere you look someone is pregnant.
I understand ya'll wanna have sex, but damn... use a condom or something. I've never been pregnant and I never want to be. I have a hard time taking care of myself, why would I ever put myself in a situation where I have to take care of someone else? And if the day came where I did have kids, I sure as hell would not have alcohol or drugs in my house. I would try and eliminate swearing and focus on teaching good manners, etiquette and positive behavior. Everything that I've done wrong in my life, I would want to try and teach my children to avoid. Obviously I cannot control them, and who  they will become, but I can at least guide them and show them good examples. I can provide them the necessary tools to be successful and wise and hope that they choose the right decisions on their path.

So to the woman who lost her daughter. Don't say "fuck you for taking my daughter away from me" to us because of your carelessness. The moment you decided to get high or have unprotected sex is the second you made the possibility of losing your child a reality.

Remember, in your life, everything you do has an effect on everything else that you do to some degree. Some things have more weight than others. But small holes sink big ships. So small insignificant choices that you make can have the biggest impact immediately or later on in life.

Let this be an example.