"卡奴燒炭 全家4死
張智凱一家4口 Committed suicide.
63歲高中教職退休的母親"
The above is today's headline news of UDN dated 4/16/06

The immediate response from my mind is that a rotten mother caused tragedy.

The behavior of an adults and his/her life attribute the 3 educations. There are three factors: family school and society.  Family is the most important of them all. Think about it that a high
school teacher could have spoiled his own son by giving free loaded money without consideration of the consequences. That made me heart broken and sick of the mother raising the kids without proper rule and principle of responsibilities.

I recall when I was a kid, my grandma told me an old story.  A criminal who committed a killing was about to be executed. The executioner asked him what was his last wish before the death squad. He said that he wanted to see his mother for the last time. 

His mother was called for to see his son for the very last time.
She asked, "What I could do for you? Son"
He asked if he could suck his mother's milk for the last time.
She agreed and exposed her breast and gave her last breast-feeding.
Upon approaching his mother with his mouth on the nipple, the young man bitted off his mother nipple and said with tear in his eyes:
"Why did you not stop me when I made 1st mistake?"

I don’t know the exact story and if there is any truth in it. Yet that story has last taught me the important lesson of family education.

Living in this society, we tent to blame others for their own mistakes. We blame the banks for their high interest. We blame the ministry of Education for not having proper teaching in the school. We blame the government for having done not enough to protect personal interest. In a word, it is always others fault nothing he to blame.

The today's news is particular good example of a rotten mother. Should she have had taught her son to make his own living after growing up as an adult he would not have had depending on his mother all the years. This is a particular cold case and lesson taught to those spoiling mother.