Water conservation or bad parenting?

I just saw a little boy, maybe 5 years old, peeing onto the ground near a tree in the front yard of what I would assume to be his parent’s home.  And he wasn’t like somewhat camouflaged by a bush or anything; his little ‘thing’ was clearly visible from about 5 yards away as I drove up the street heading home from the grocery store.  I don’t live amongst corn fields and farmlands either, this is in urban Portland.  This anerves me as it wasn’t but 2 weeks ago when I was driving home and the same thing was happening.  What the hell is going on?  I thought only juvenile boys who were too drunk to bother finding the bathroom peed outside in broad daylight.  Maybe I’m just old fashioned but it seems to me that we should be teaching our young to use the appropriate facilities to relieve themselves as we have the luxury of plumbing.

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