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>>>I really hate it when adults try to avoid taking responsibility by making absolute rules.
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>>>Tamar
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>>You mean like "There will never be guns in my house" or "my kids can't play in houses where there are guns?" .... sounds the same to me.
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>You can't see any difference between rules that apply to a household versus rules that affect a general population (for lack of a better term)?
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>Many kids have been expelled because a "no drugs in our district schools" rule has meant that kids requiring medication brought their prescriptions to school. That's just one simple example of the problem with absolute rules.

Has nothing to do with family or community. Tamar's quoted statement is all that I responded too. She said she hates absolutes to avoid repsonsibility on one hand and makes absolute rules for her children on the other. Can't have it both ways.