By Dan Calabrese —— Bio and Archives May 24, 2018
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“I don’t see why they can’t just, you know, wait a little bit for me to leave the house,” Mr Rotondo argued, as his parents looked on, sitting with their lawyer. He said six months was “a reasonable amount of time for someone who has been depending on persons for support”. The smiling judge urged him to speak to his parents, and to voluntarily leave the house, but Mr Rotondo refused. “I want you out of that household,” Judge Greenwood told him, according to ABC News. In a court filing last week, Christina and Mark Rotondo described issuing several orders for their son to move out, starting on 2 February 2018. “There are jobs available even for those with a poor work history like you,” they wrote in one note, dated 18 February.
“Get one – you have to work!” They also gave him $1,100 (£819) to leave, according to one letter, which suggested he sell his some belongings including a broken down Volkswagen Passat. “I was originally hoping to give it back,” he later told CBS outside the family home. “I had to spend it and I’m not sorry about it,” he added, telling other local media that it went towards “expenses”.In court he acknowledged he has never contributed to household chores. I am not arguing it’s never acceptable for a person in his or her 30s to end up in a bad place and have to temporarily move back in with Mom and Dad. Even if it’s the result of your own bad choices, sometimes you have to humble yourself and ask for help, and the people who love you are usually willing to provide that help. But that does not sound like what’s going on here. This guy obviously has rarely if ever had much inclination to work, nor to contribute much of anything – either to the household or to society. I have no idea what kinds of people his parents are, but is it really so outrageous to think they’ve recognized their own role in enabling their son’s irresponsible behavior and attitude?
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