Joe Biden's son dies of cancer

[Gay Boy Roberto]

How much tragedy can one family endure?

[Odinson]

What else happened to Joe Biden?

[Odinson]

Ask the Kennedys about how much tragedy can one family endure..

[Romero]

Beau Biden's had a really rough last few years. It's so unfair when they die so young.

[Romero]

What Beau Biden Wanted Everyone To Know



While Biden served as attorney general in Delaware, a position to which he was elected in 2006, he brought a successful indictment against Dr. Earl Bradley in 2010. The pediatrician was charged with 471 felony counts of child abuse involving 102 girls and one boy. Bradley was convicted in 2011, but sought appeal of his case on the grounds of ineffective counsel last year.



"I cannot say certain things that I am feeling, and I am feeling a great deal. I am determined to see that this defendant will never, ever be in a position again to hurt another child," Biden said in a statement following the indictment.



Biden became something of a national spokesman on the issue, even speaking about the crimes of Penn State's former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. (His father, Joe Biden, was an early supporter of the Violence Against Women Act, which targeted domestic violence.)



"It's adults' responsibility to protect kids. It's not the kids' responsibility to protect themselves from these predators.... There need to be consequences for violating the law," he said when interviewed by ABC News.



One of the reasons that childhood sexual abuse is so difficult to tackle is that an estimated 90 precent of victims know their abuser and 30 percent are abused by family members. Sometimes children are abused by older children. Yet just 38 percent of victims disclose the fact that they have been sexually abused — and far fewer incidents are reported to authorities. Darkness to Light further points out that not all abusers are pedophiles, and there are "situational" abusers who often begin abusing children later in life. LGBT youth are at far greater risk of experiencing childhood sexual abuse, perhaps because abusers target a vulnerable population. Biden also supported Delaware's protections for gender identity non-discrimination, which can protect transgender youth from stigma they face.



http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/05/31/3664478/beau-biden-crusaded-end-sexual-abuse-children/">//http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/05/31/3664478/beau-biden-crusaded-end-sexual-abuse-children/

[cc]

I find myself feeling for Joe this weekend quite strongly.



I know of nothing that hurts as much for a parent as loosing kids. I guess loosing a young mate or father would be pretty close, but a kid is still different.

[J0E]

I wonder if Biden's son got cancer after serving in Iraq from substances such as depleted uranium.



Did a google search to find that cancer is a major illness which afflicts veterans of the Afghan and Iraq wars.

Brain cancer is just one of many:



 http://csn.cancer.org/node/236568">http://csn.cancer.org/node/236568



So the irony is that Beau Biden's undoing may not have been the enemy he was fighting against but the one his owngovernment and military created there.

[RW]

No parent should have to bury a child, regardless of their age.



 ac_crying

[cc]

Ya. It's "not supposed to" happen that way. Everything inside a parent screams that. Even worse, we parents are supposed to protect our children and for most there is no expiry date on that unspoken pledge



Unfortunately it happens a lot





.or? Be very ashamed. You know nothing of him .. nothing ...  so stop using him as anther opportunity to spout off your hatred of the US and love of tall anti US tales  into it .. just stop!!

[J0E]

Ya. It's "not supposed to" happen that way. Everything inside a parent screams that. Even worse, we parents are supposed to protect our children and for most there is no expiry date on that unspoken pledge



Unfortunately it happens a lot





.or? Be very ashamed. You know nothing of him .. nothing ...  so stop using him as anther opportunity to spout off your hatred of the US and love of tall anti US tales  into it .. just stop!!

...but that's one of the realities of modern warfare, cc.



If bullets or bombs don't fell these soldiers, then chemicals & other substances may do the trick.

This ain't the wars your grandfathers orr great grandfathers fought.



They don't just shoot the soldiers, they poison the slowly now.

[cc]

according to the whaco hate porn you read, swallow and orgasm to



Well we now know the answer to the "Does Joe swallow?" question



Again,

.or? Be very ashamed. You know nothing of him .. nothing ... so stop using him as anther opportunity to spout off your hatred of the US and love of tall anti US tales into it .. just stop!!

[Anonymous]

How much tragedy can one family endure?

Too bad it wasn't Joe Biden himself.