Posted on 12/08/2022 9:38:41 AM PST by sodpoodle
I don’t think I got a social security card until I started working.
Yes, I would say that would be an accurate assessment. I hope the parents have the same in their after-lives.
It could have been one parent beat the kid to death and the other helped cover it up. Or it could have been an older step-child and the parents decided not to lose two kids.
That was my first thought too. Interestingly my daughter born in 1979 had a newborn passport with an angry baby face because she was born overseas and needed it to come into the country for the first time.
My older brother got a summer job then, so my parents got us all cards.
Either that, or my parents were expecting me to start earning my way at 11 or 12 and I just didn’t get the message.
Yup. Went to Philly from Portland.
Many parents didn’t bother, until IRS decided that no dependents could be claimed on a return without a social security number for each. This must have been by the late 1970s?
I just came across mine from 1967. I was just learning “cursive.” You could tell my parents had impressed upon me how important the signature was. It appears like the most carefully written signature I’ve ever done in my life.
These days it’s a scrawl.
..or the 1970s with the Houston "Candy Man" murders of 30 boys. Some think 10 or so of them were sold to child gay sex rings in California (of course) and lots of NAMBLA fingerprints on some of the missing boys.
Absolutely horrible photos discovered recently of MORE missing little boys have emerged :
so the war on boys continues, by men......
“”Joseph has a number of siblings on both the mother’s and father’s side.””
They apparently know who the mother was and that she married (or not) and had children with someone else - likewise the father. There wouldn’t be any reason to use the term - “both mother’s and father’s side” otherwise. Just “siblings” would have been sufficient.
How horribly sad. Someone, somewhere in a neighborhood, had to know a child had gone missing..
“”I wonder if the “journalist” who wrote this even knows that issuance of SS numbers to newborns is a relatively recent thing, starting around 1987.””
Doubtful and too lazy to check it out...
“”TV and the movies teach at-home-private investigators a lot.””
TRUE and when we get fascinated by one, we remember we’ve seen it before. There’s no shortage of such stories so we just find another one to watch. I never thought of myself as an at-home-private investigator but I don’t mind the label.
“”born in 1954, got an SSN””
The year I graduated from high school and got my first one for my first job....
Poor little thing. God rest his innocent soul.
“”Poor little thing. God rest his innocent soul.””
Amen.
I heard the press conference live on Philadelphia talk radio.
It’s kind of mind boggling that a city paralyzed by out of control crime can expend pretty significant resources to a case where the perpetrators are almost certainly dead.
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