I coulda sworn there’d been a thread about Jeb’s daugther’s legal troubles (pro’lly lost in the Winter of Our Lost Content).
my stance is/was: All criminal cases are subject to publication, so moaning about how she shouldn’t be paraded in the press etc, should also mean we shouldn’t be hearing about Downey Jr., Ms. Ryder’s, etc. I also recognize that as a parent of an adult, one doesn’t have control over their actions, painful as that might be.
But I believed that Jeb’s stance should/shoulda been pretty much "she’s our daughter/we love her/we don’t approve of every action of hers/we expect that the system will treat her as others in similar situations, nothing more, nothing less. And I also hoped that it would bring home to him the problems of substance abuse, that ‘zero tolerance’ wasn’t necessarily a productive method of dealing w/SA, they will often relapse etc.
and now, several months after the initial arrest, after she’d been sentenced to a rehab program (which is appropriate for a first time offender), she’s relapsed, and his statement is :
My sympathies to Noelle and her family, I know this road is a difficult one to traverse for all concerned.
and kudo’s to Jeb for his statements to the press today. cite
i think that they handled this correctly. noelle is an adult, able to make her own choices, realize the consequences of those choices.
abusing your position as govener of fl, and changing the rules for your daughter would sell the entire family short. no parent wants to see bad things happen to their child no matter how old. sometimes you have to let the chips fall even if you could stop them.
for her to continue with drug addiction would be much worse than the legal troubles she is in.
i hope that she will be able to see her way out of the addiction.