I wonder how an alcoholic parent budgets money between their addiction, a bottle of wine, case of beer, quart of whiskey and new shoes for their child?
They want to talk about how the poor spend their welfare? I think it is also highly applicable to wealthy parents! How they make that decision between a case of wine and perhaps a new pair of shoes for their child?
Maybe the fathers a highly successful person who is also a drunk and the child doesn't even have a baseball?
Face it, alcohol is very expensive, a weeks worth or even a days worth. And the parent likely believes that making the opportunity cost in favor of alcohol teaches their child a valuable lesson. And perhaps moneywise it does work out that way in the end for them.
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And this is highly in line with Catholicism...generally the teachings of Christ. ~"You are giving table scraps to the dogs when the children go hungry?" And Jesus also told us that we would suffer for believing the same things that he does. And we do in untold ways. But we wouldn't want to be whatever it is on the other side of the argument...that lives in perdition.
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