>>I like and respect you, bear in mind. It's just that questioning a parent's commitment, even untentionally, is over the line. My marriage broke up but neither of us ever stopped being parents, plural. My younger daughter graduates from high school two weeks from tomorrow, third in her class. (And the only well adjusted one in the three). I will be there in the bleachers with her mom and her sister. Her test scores have always been off the charts. I do not claim too much credit for that. The one thing I claim credit for is she has grown up every day of her life knowing she is loved.
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>>If you are not still following the basketball career of Chicago's gift to Memphis, Derrick Rose, he was presented the MVP trophy before Wednesday night's game, the youngest in league history.
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>>Hmmm, this hits both topics at once. He was raised by a single parent. And it shows what a parent can do.
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>Yeah, there ARE exceptions to anything and everything. Derrick Rose also had some older brothers looking out for him as I recall. I'm glad he has done so well. I think I've stated my case regarding the norm though. Most of the thousands of the homes I've visited while attempting to arrest people were occupied by a grandmother, a mother and several kids. It is a formula for disaster, in most cases.
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I won't dispute your experience. And I was wrong to give every biological father a pass. Sometimes they do stay involved, but far too often not.
Derrick Rose did have older siblings who kept an eye on him. Two brothers and a sister, I think, in addition to his mother. The neighborhood he grew up in is one of the worst in Chicago. He's living proof that you don't have to go bad. It probably also helps to have an explosive first step.
Good game for him and the Bulls last night. He scored 44 in a Bulls romp that gave them a 2-1 lead in the series. They have gone back to defense, which was their key this season, after a really shaky first game. From the day Tom Thibodeau took over as head coach last summer that has been their foundation. They were frankly not a good defensive team. He worked with them tirelessly and made them believe it. I don't think there's a person in the world who thought they would have the league's best record this season. I sure didn't. Being a Bulls fan is fun again after over a decade of mediocrity and worse.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/basketball/bulls/ct-spt-0507-bulls-hawks-chicago--20110506,0,2214180.story
