Thanks to Marla for this one. Read All About It It's horrifying to know that young girls turn to prostitution, and I love the ultimate reality the article points out: the police can scarcely do more about this than the parents can. However, I'm perplexed by the National City police chief's comment that these girls are even coming from otherwise "well-off" families. Have I missed 100 years of history somewhere? Poor parents have the lock on abuse, molestation, neglect? Fat wallets don't buy a ticket on the good ship Loving Parent. Jose Menendez couldn't even stay alive with his wealth and largesse... you hear us down there Jose? We're talking about you! How's that pitchfork in your ass? Michael Jackson, fatcat extraordinaire. Would anyone be the least bit shocked if his kids turned up whoring on East 17th Street? It's a horrible attittude...as long as just the poor girls are whoring themselves out of the horror movie that is their life, well, what're ya gonna do. But when the middle classes hit this barrier, well, shit, now we have a problem... It is a sad fact that there are so many completely defective parents out there. I'm sorry, but Mrs. Flake's daughter didn't just wake up one day and say, man, my life is so good here, my mom is so wonderful, my Banana Republic wardrobe is so great, but I think a life of whoring myself would be even better. Sorry! Mrs. Flake, you're probably a complete asshole, or you're married to one, and my prayers go out to your poor, lost daughter; that she finds a respite somewhere not in your house.