{"id":1276,"date":"2004-06-01T14:30:32","date_gmt":"2004-06-01T18:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/is_there_hope_f"},"modified":"2004-06-01T14:30:32","modified_gmt":"2004-06-01T18:30:32","slug":"is_there_hope_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1276","title":{"rendered":"Is there hope for this family?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/stlawrence.to\/ripples\/hardcastle.html\">Hardcastle family in Las Vegas<\/a> could easily be the family next door. The parents are hard-working professionals and their beloved daughter, Whitney, is a druggie without a future. Although she appears to be just another child of privilege, there would seem to be other factors in this situation.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Gerald W. Hardcastle is a family court judge and deals with children who are neglected or abused, addicted or delinquent. His wife Kathy is the chief district judge of Clark County.<\/p>\n<p>Their daughter brought a runaway boy home last year and the Hardcastles let him stay. The Hardcastles indulge their daughter with money, cars, a cellphone, nice clothing. They are waiting for her moment of clarity, the day she wakes up and they all laugh about this. <\/p>\n<p>Read their <a href=\"http:\/\/stlawrence.to\/ripples\/hardcastle.html\">story<\/a> and see if you can spot where things really went wrong.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen you read of Whitney&#8217;s childhood, you can see that a lot of effort was put in by all concerned, but somehow there was an absence of, or a breakdown in communication. When the truth finally came out, it was too late for half-measures. The family was irrevocably launched into a downward spiral which continues today.<\/p>\n<p>Her father blames Las Vegas, but I think Whitney was never adequately prepared for life.<\/p>\n<p>It would seem that love alone is not enough to ensure your children&#8217;s happiness. In a hostile environment, it also takes the right kind of training in overcoming adversity. Perhaps Whitney is learning as a result of her exposure to the underside of Las Vegas. I hope so, because her parents seem to have gone into withdrawal. <\/p>\n<p>Hug your children and shower them with love, but you had better prepare them for the real world too.<\/p>\n<p>For my earlier posts on children of privilege, check <a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/2004\/04\/children_of_adv.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/2004\/04\/baby_boomer_chi.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/stlawrence.to\/ripples\/hardcastle.html\">Hardcastle family in Las Vegas<\/a> could easily be the family next door. The parents are hard-working professionals and their beloved daughter, Whitney, is a druggie without a future. Although she appears to be just another child of privilege, there would seem to be other factors in this situation.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Gerald W. Hardcastle is a family court judge and deals with children who are neglected or abused, addicted or delinquent. His wife Kathy is the chief district judge of Clark County.<\/p>\n<p>Their daughter brought a runaway boy home last year and the Hardcastles let him stay. The Hardcastles indulge their daughter with money, cars, a cellphone, nice clothing. They are waiting for her moment of clarity, the day she wakes up and they all laugh about this. <\/p>\n<p>Read their <a href=\"http:\/\/stlawrence.to\/ripples\/hardcastle.html\">story<\/a> and see if you can spot where things really went wrong.\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1276\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1839],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-kA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}