Posted on 09/25/2009 10:13:51 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
You read that headline right. A woman who was watching her neighbor's kids each school morning for 40 minutes before the bus came is being accused of being a criminal by the State of Michigan.
It takes a village, right? Remember when you were a kid and the next door neighbor looked after you for an hour or so until your parents got back from shopping or work? Remember when your neighbor might even pick you up from school at one time or another? Remember that your parents returned the favor whenever it was necessary? Remember when neighbors felt a responsibility to each other? Well thank God we don't have to rely on friends and neighbors any more. After all, we have the glorious state to take care of us now. We have our fathers and mothers in government to watch out for us. Who needs neighbors?
This is what has happened in the people's state of Michigan where a kindly maternal woman is being ground under the iron boot heel of authorities from the State of Michigan because she dared to watch her neighbor's children for about 40 minutes before school each weekday in violation of the state's child daycare center registration laws.
Shockingly this poor woman is being threatened by the goosesteppers of the child welfare department of what should be the Badger State instead of Wolverine -- that would be more apt in this case -- because she did not get a childcare license for watching her neighbor's kids for the 40 minutes before the the bus arrives each morning...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
That’s coming from a blue state, Michigan, which is a union friendly state with high unemployment rate. Don’t they have to worry than some woman babysitting neighbor kids?
And what can we do to help? Who do we call???
If the neighbors are friends as well, can’t they claim that they are considered “family” (well by loose liberal values at least). They could then claim this law doesn’t apply to them.
The mom of the kids could “say that she and her neighbors are lovers” and she was watching her Significant other’s children for her.
I would like to see the liberal’s judge’s head EXPLODE at this “Revelation”.
We need to follow some of Saul’s tactics, (Use their own laws against them).
Cite some Homosexual rights argument and stick it to them all of their own crap back at them.
Note: this is just one tactic that could be used against them, please let me know if you can think of something else.
I’d complain to the governor’s office.
Wow! Maybe I should apply for a child care license because I watch my two grandkids for a couple hours after school a few days a week - and heavens forbid, I watch them all day if they are sick and unable to attend school. Hopefully no one will report me. LOL
our canadian socialist feminazi governator would side with the unions on this one...how DARE you question the state????
Licensed day care centers are no better. Sometimes crime can happen there.
I think details and facts would be a nice addition to this article. Miss Houston’s vapors can’t carry the load half as far as his keyboard attempted to take it.
If a couple of my kids friends come over to visit, does that mean I’m running a day care? What’s the difference?
totally believable in a state which sends Cease and Desist notices to dam-building beavers, and where the law forces retailers to mark every unit in stock with a sticky price tag, just like grocery stores used to do in the 60’s
This sort of fascism by child agencies is common throughout the nation and cannot be tied to the Rats. Here in Utah we have one of the worst agencies in the USA. I’m not kidding. I have been personally involved in parent’s rights and have seen the atrocities that some caseworkers commit for no other reason than their lust for power and destruction. I have seen children taken for no more reason than that the agency needed to fill beds in a psych unit they had a contract with. 100% of children taken by the Utah DFCS are placed on psychiatric drugs. Case workers have come to us with horror stories of the evils of the DCFS that would make your hair stand on end. Many of them quit after a year or so because they can’t support the “grab children for adoption” money making machine. In one case a family court judge took away parental rights for a newborn baby and then adopted the baby herself.
I called the Governor’s office to complain, because as parents we have the RIGHT to make the decision of who watches our children! They referred me to the ‘children’s Ombudsmen’ at 517-373-3077.......
People need to call and uphold the right to choose who as parents, we decide can watch our children, NOT the state or the government!
So I called them and they referred me to ‘Daycare Licensing’ who is ‘pushing’ this....at 517-373-8300
In Michigan, as I recollect from some recent news or posting item, Day Care workers are automatically forced into joining a union, and union dues become due from each paycheck.
And the woman who answered at that number told me....it’s because of which house, the children are being watched, in!!! I let her have it...we the people, the parent, can decide if it’s o.k. for whichever house we deem is appropriate, not the state deems!
When I was little my cousins and I would take turns sleeping at each others’ houses during the summer. This was considered a “vacation”.
I remember that in our neighborhood the kids often were watched by whichever adults were home that day and we’d all end up at that house. Sometimes they fed you too, if you were there long enough. Neighborhood kids would be at my house at times after school because their parents weren’t home yet.
What about when kids are over for a pool party or birthday party or something like that? That can last all day. The parents aren’t likely to be there and so some other adults are watching everyone’s kids.
How the heck did we get through life without all these gevernment nannies?
Our children’s friends used to call our house “the clubhouse”. It was hectic and tough on the woodwork BUT we knew who our children were with.
Was she doing this as a paid job? Or, was she simply helping the neighbor out? If she was being paid as recompense for childcare work authorities might have a case. If she was not engaged in purposeful child care services, then I’d think this is an example of governmental intrusion.
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