For those of you who read my articles regularly, you recall the numerous times I have mentioned that increased parenting will help long term poverty more than increased government. Well one Denver couple has taken the idea of parental guidance to a knew level absurdity:

On Saturday, Joseph Manzanares stormed into the Hollywood Video store where his girlfriend worked, threatened to kill her and knocked over several video displays and even a computer, Commerce City police Sgt. Joe Sandoval said.

After he ran out of the store, police were called and the 19-year-old was arrested at his home.

The argument was over how best to raise their 4 year old child. Here is where the story takes an unexpected turn:

His girlfriend told police that they had been arguing about the upbringing of their son and which gang he should belong to. The teen mother, who is black, is a member of the Crips. Manzanares is Hispanic and belongs to the Westside Ballers gang, the woman said.

“They have different ideas on how the baby should be raised. Basically, she said they cannot agree on which gang the baby would ‘claim,’” Sandoval said.

Remarkably the article makes no mention of child services taking the toddler from these obviously unfit parents.

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