Most people have heard about the Running Back Adrian Petersen's two year old son who was beaten to death by his mother's boyfriend.  At least two different sports columnists wrote pieces decrying Petersen's personality and lifestyle choices for having multiple children with different mothers without being involved in their lives.  Both or these reporters were widely castigated for their "bad timing" and "lack of compassion".

My answer to that would be "Compassion for Whom."  This penchant for just making babies and not being responsible parents in their lives and for their welfare seems to have become socially acceptable in modern day society, and particularly in the professional sports world and Hollywood.

We seem to be afraid to condemn bad behavior these days as being wrong.  These celebrities and the women that have "hooked up" with them to make broken families do so with impunity.  In out quest to be more compassionate for people in general, have we become less compassionate for children?