Filipino girl age 11, hangs herself due to poverty

[GlitchWizard]

Has anyone considered the fact that she might have had a chemical imbalance? There are many kids who are poor who are doing just fine - so it may be she was undiagnosed because of the cost of a doctor, or just not recognizing the symptoms. When we assume a child is upset over money, we sometimes forget that it might not be the money.

 

[Masterj]

Has anyone considered the fact that she might have had a chemical imbalance? There are many kids who are poor who are doing just fine - so it may be she was undiagnosed because of the cost of a doctor, or just not recognizing the symptoms. When we assume a child is upset over money, we sometimes forget that it might not be the money.

EXACTLY! Thank you, Glitch!

 

[GlitchWizard]

EXACTLY! Thank you, Glitch!

I just had it on my mind because my daughter and I discussed the huge numbers of homeless in this country as well as the huge numbers of people in prisons who aren't bad people, but are mentally ill.

 

[imthemom]

Soo much sadness. My father and my husband both came from Mexico. My father lived in a house with a dirt floor and 13 other kids. His father sent him away to a state run school when he was 7 because he could only send one child and he thought my father was the smartest and he would eat every day then. My father ended up resenting his parents for sending him away and to this day struggles with knowing how to be a parent because he never had that bond. My DH tells me of how he worked in the fields with his father from the age of 7 and he would give all the money to his father for food. He said one time him and his brother were looking at little toy cars and his dad siad to them you are too old to play with toys you have to go to work It made me want to cry for him when he told me that story. A lot of people don't want more immigrants in this country but if people would just put thierselves in someone elses shoes they might feel differently. A boat of people coming from Guatamala were killed a few weeks ago trying to get here. It is so bad where they come from they risk death to get here.

 

[imthemom]

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The head of Iraq's main humanitarian group said an 18-year-old approached him with a baby suffering from leukemia. The desperate mother said she'd do "anything" for treatment for her child -- and then offered herself up for sex.

Said Ismail Hakki says seeing the plight of Iraq's children takes its toll: "How are we going to solve it?"
;Said Ismail Hakki breaks down in tears as he recalls that story. Leukemia can be treatable to a degree in much of the world, but not in Iraq. The baby died two months later.
"It shook me like hell," said Hakki, the president of the Iraqi Red Crescent. "All my life I've been a surgeon. I've seen blood; I've seen death. That never shook me -- none whatsoever. But when I see the suffering of those people, that really shook me."
The plight of Iraq's children is nearing epidemic proportions, he said, with mothers and fathers abandoning their children "because they're becoming a liability." The parents don't do it out of convenience, they do it out of desperation.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/09/iraq.children/index.html

Another place where suffering is everyday.

 

[feddup]

That is so sad
The Phillipines is a very poor country. I feel so sorry for the family, its bad enough to be poor but Fillipinos are very family oriented, they must be devastated.
A Fillipino lady took care of my Grandmother during her last 2 yrs, she was wonderful. So patient and always in a good mood.

 

[UM&AMWfan]

Has anyone considered the fact that she might have had a chemical imbalance? There are many kids who are poor who are doing just fine - so it may be she was undiagnosed because of the cost of a doctor, or just not recognizing the symptoms. When we assume a child is upset over money, we sometimes forget that it might not be the money.

Right on. Do you know how many poor/disabled people wish they had it as good as she did?

They are all sad stories but this girl didn't have it THAT bad since millions of poor/disabled live EVERY DAY in worse shape than she was.

 

[philamena]

This story truly breaks my heart.

 

[PrayersForMaura]

Right on. Do you know how many poor/disabled people wish they had it as good as she did?

They are all sad stories but this girl didn't have it THAT bad since millions of poor/disabled live EVERY DAY in worse shape than she was.

gosh, such disdain

The poor little girl killed herself. We didn't walk a mile in her shoes or go through what she did. She was obviously hurting inside to do such a thing.
Why are you writing such posts?

 

[GlitchWizard]

gosh, such disdain

The poor little girl killed herself. We didn't walk a mile in her shoes or go through what she did. She was obviously hurting inside to do such a thing.
Why are you writing such posts?

I think the post meant it probably wasn't the poverty that caused her pain. Emotional turmoil caused by other issues (chemical imbalance, for example) is way worse than outside influences on you. It was in response to such a post - not an attack on the girl, in my opinion.