Auntie Charo's Soapbox

I won't use her name because it doesn't matter. That a human being, a full-grown woman could have no mercy on a disabled grandparent to jump on him and scratch him has to say much about what kind of person this woman is. There are laws that prohibit people from abusing cats, dogs and other types of pets. Could she kick a dog, jump on an old dog or cat and scratch it up if it were sick and disabled? What happened to this woman while she was growing up to have had so little left in her heart that she could turn on a grandparent?
Unfortunately, I'm not surprised. The fabric of our society is threadbare. We are no longer made up of tightly knit families who gather on weekends to bond, to share eachother's company, to share to good things and the bad, to share the happiness, the sadness, the goodhealth and the ill-health. We're no longer there for eachother, these days, we farm out our grandparents, as far away as possible, perhaps to that big house atop Barrigada Hts., where the nuns from the Philippines can take care of them and we don't have to worry about them but once or twice a month when they run out of diapers, maybe not even then!
Sure, it's hard to care for the elderly, who said it was a peice of cake? But then, how many grandparents are now taking care of their grandchildren because both sets of parents are still working? What ever happened to the "Honor thy father and mother" commandment? Seems that went out with the rest of the other nine. I'll cut to the chase...Guam's changed a lot and not all of it has been good. Killing children and leaving them in the mud hasn't been good, or for that matter, beating up on grandparents! We used to adore the Almighty God. Now we adore the almighty dollar. 'Tis a pity, but true. For the lady in court? I hope she gets what she deserves-in this world. For the grandparent that she abused? I hope he gets to move in to a home where he is loved and cared for the duration of his life.