[aardvark1]

If this story is true, I have not mercy for the parents or this church....however, I am not about to believe child protective services in ANY state in the union until I had more evidence than presented in the newspaper.

For all you freepers who don't trust gov't intrusion, why now swallow this story without at least a littel skepticism. The parents' story does sound far-fetched, but I'm not ready to jump on the state's bandwagon quite yet.

[netmilsmom]

I have to agree with you.
My question is "why did the parents do this?"

If they actually starved these boys, they should be starved themselves.

[Bob]

For all you freepers who don't trust gov't intrusion, why now swallow this story without at least a littel skepticism. The parents' story does sound far-fetched, but I'm not ready to jump on the state's bandwagon quite yet.

Have you seen the pictures of these kids? The nineteen-year-old is only about four feet tall and he weighs under fifty pounds. Four adopted boys in the same family don't 'just happen' to have eating disorders.

[justshutupandtakeit]

We have seen such stories repeatedly from all across the nation and your efforts to put the blame on the State when it is obviously the sadistic pyschopaths draining the state funds for their own use who deserve it is contemptible. But such misinformation and falsehoods are typical of the ideological blind who haunt these precincts.

Social workers are inundated by the destruction caused by Out of Wedlock births and CANNOT POSSIBILY CORRECT ALL THE DAMAGE therefrom. Yet, we have to listen to the crap which flows from those who do not recognize that the problem is one of individual behavior.

In general there is far more of a problem from social workers who are unable to intervene quickly and sufficiently than from those who are too zealous without appropriate cause. It isn't even close.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Guess you haven't been following this story. These kids had been adopted through the child welfare system, and another child in the home (a girl, so she got fed) was pending adoption. Child welfare workers had been filling out regular reports on their alleged visits to the home for years, stating that everything was fine. Nine workers have already been fired over this. I'll believe the state on this one (though I'm quite skeptical as to whether the state will actually take the needed steps to prevent a recurrence -- especially as that would require firing all the workers who were protesting today that the fired workers shouldn't have been blamed because it's really "the system's" fault).