Dr. Laura and Her Sick Son Deryk — Let’s Laugh a While!
This is me making fun of Dr. Laura and her son, Deryk, who has been in the news lately. The conservative rebuttals have of course addressed the issue that parents aren’t to be held responsible for the behavior of their adult children.
Which is, of course, true. But with Dr. Laura, in particular, this is important. A huge bit of her schtick is the importance of protecting children from permissive society in order for them to develop into moral people. She makes particular statements about the efficacy of fundamentalist religious indoctrination of youth as a way to make moral, socially responsible people. Since she advances this notion, I think it is very fair to look at the way she has raised her own children, and how they, as adults, act in responsible and moral fashions.
Don’t weep too much for Deryk, either. He has, all his adult life, been an active part in promoting his mother’s career. So, he’s a public personality in his own right, putting himself in the public eye. Let us take a look, shall we?