Millions of kids are neglected by their parents, who in many cases are as adults' abusers of alcohol and drugs, who both have to work full time to pay for life, so kids come home from school to an empty house without supervision, left alone to their idle time, known as the devils playground, and people wonder why such children have so many problems not just as kids but also when they grow up and become mommies & daddies suffering the same fate, as the middle class of America shrinking the American dream burned down & slashed apart with currency inflation, insourcing & outsourcing years ago.
Now transnational global monopolies control 90% of e-commerce or telecom or gasoline access or internet access or water or natural gas access, beneficiaries of inequality increasing the world's first trillionaires, now let me tell you a little story about a guy whose life ruined like this.
His name was Harvey, he was a brilliant kid, loving parents, he grew up supported, went to college, became an engineer, working his first good jobs as a weapons designer, his income put him on the up and up.
Now in his first apartment, he is out on a Saturday afternoon at a beach park near San Diego California, a young woman about his age, Sienna, comes up on roller skates noticing his dapper appearance, nerdy disposition, she flirts & he loves it, eats it up, asks her out on a date the same day, they appear to hit it off, he is sold on Sienna, in love "she loves me, I love her"
After dating for a few months Harvey gets a ring, then he sets it up and proposes, she accepts, they are married. She stays at home while he is at work as an engineer, he makes all the money & saves up to buy a house. They plan, shop, find one and put the down payment & buy a house in suburbia.
Within a couple of years in their new house, decorated nicely according to Sienna's style & preference, she cooks him breakfast, packs his lunch, has dinner ready for him when he gets home, does all the laundry, dishes, takes care of all the house duties, so when Harvey comes home from a long day & commute, she gives him a warm welcome, then after dinner she shows him a good time clothes off sideways & makes smiles & moaning that drives him mad in all the right ways. He feels like he has won the lottery in life, amazing, on the top of his game at work, getting all the right stuff at home, Sienna becomes pregnant, in a few more years they have 3 kids, a son, then two daughters. Now 10 years on, he is still loving life.
Sienna a stay-at-home wife, home cooked meals, organic & natural, healthy, they both workouts together on the weekend. Now in their early thirties, the girls are at the end of elementary school, oldest boy now in middle school. All appears & seems to be correct, just right, amazing, but one day, on Friday night, Harvey had to stay at work late to finish up a project, then got home after dark to a dark house, no one home, he turns the lights on & finds a note on the counter.
"You have no idea, but I set out from age 15 to find a middle-class engineer, buy a house with his money, buy cars with his money, my clothes with his money, then deliberately have kids with him, so that I could act like a pit viper gold digger, file for divorce, take the kids, house, & most of the money, Leaving YOU Harvey in the lurch, maybe 4 days per month you get to see the kids, but you have to pay me $3000 per month for that access. You fell for it, I played you, you are a fool, I am the winner here"
She leaves a divorce packet for him to sign. He is so demoralized on seeing & reading this, he takes the bottle & drinks into a stupor, aware his entire life was just jacked by a pit viper gold digger who played him perfectly.
A few months later in Court his x-wife shows up with the kids, the Judge bribed, looks at Harvey, "Son, your anger management problems scares your former wife & kids, they are afraid of you, and we want all your money, your house, your investments, your car, your happiness, your dreams, we want everything, so give it up, give it to your wife & kids for their benefits, now you keep working for nothing, keep some of it to pay for a studio apartment & a used car, keep on earning money & pay them, so you get almost nothing for all your hard work, they get to hijack your life & I am for it, so you have to support your children, so we will take it from your pay as an engineer."
Then about 5 years on, now kids in High School, the Engineering Firm lets Harvey go, he was replaced by a chatbot that does the math faster. Now with no income to pay for his life or theirs, his wife cuts off his access to his kids. He only wants to see them on their birthdays to give them a gift, taking on odd jobs & entry level work, working two jobs, going home alone all the time, lonely, he still loves her, Harvey never stopped loving Sienna or their kids, but he is angry for a list of reasons listed above, has an anger management problems because his life was jacked from him, so he is hard to talk too on the phone, & the kids are afraid of him losing his temper, so they cut him off, and one day he calls wanting to give his son a car for his 16th birthday, purchased cash, as a gift, but Sienna so afraid she calls the police.
A detective about to retire, his last day, comes to Harvey's old house that Sienna stole in the divorce, Sienna tells the Detective that Harvey was going to bring a car for his son's 16th birthday on that day, so the Detective stays at the house, kids home from school, dinner time, Harvey rolls up in a used car in nice condition with a big red ribbon bow & a happy birthday son card for his son.
When Harvey goes to the front door, the Detective answers, and Harvey snaps, where is my wife & son & daughters he asks? The detective says, "let's take this outside buddy, they are afraid of you and called for me help, it's also my last day before retiring as a detective, so let's take it easy & talk over here in the yard."
They move over to a patio set & sit down & talk about life.
The detective lost a child to infant death syndrome & tells Harvey about it, but says "You're never going to see your wife or kids ever again, & pulls out a gun & points it at Harvey under the table saying "I am going to make sure of this, go ahead and look under the table"
Harvey, very literally as an engineer, he looks under the table, the detective pulls the trigger shooting Harvey in the head fatal death hit, Harvey slumps over, Sienna & the kids hearing the gun shot, running out the front door into the yard, the teen boy finding the car with keys in it & the birthday card from his dad, title, documents, plate, everything, he sees his father dead on the ground, the detective gone, the wife cowers, realizing her free ride over, no more payments from Harveys income, now that Harvey dead the gravy train is over. The young teen girls are crying, no happy ending here, reality.
Anna, Hannah & Josh, the kids, live with their cruel mother, she dates men but never finds any suitable long-term relationship. Over time now kids in college, they move away, Sienna comes down with pancreatic cancer. Away at College they get the bad news but do not really care, they never felt loved by Sienna, knew she was being fake & phony, they knew about the letter & that she was a gold-digging pit viper & hated her, so they never came to Sienna's funeral a few months later.
Anna, Hannah & Josh all end up living single lives & never marrying because of the shit poor example set by Sienna the gold-digging pit viper liar cheater evil cringy sicko they ended up hating. So that gold digger not only stole Harveys life & livelihood undo death, but she also ruined her child's minds by setting a terrible example. Sienna didn't even get to live that long; the pancreatic cancer killed her at age 47.
See from this fictitious story about other people's real lives, we see it's not always so black & white.