I knew Clinton was involved.
Moonbat city.
Now did the 9 year old object to using the dog crate for trips to Disneyworld. Probably had a good time in the cargo hold....
Whenever I read stories like this (and they seem to be frequent) I always can't help but wonder the reasons these foster children were removed from their biological parents.
I'm glad I was never put on Ridlin or caused humiliation to my parents by having a social worker coming to the house. Didn't have much of that then. I don't think I would have ratted on my parents like kids do today.
As I grew older, I was the one my mother could count on to do errands for her, help with the washing, hang clothes on the line, take them down again, vacuum, burn the trash (imagine that!), start the charcoal fire on hot days (with kindling - no petrochemical starter) and cook the hambergers, steaks, fish, set the table neatly for company, polish the silver, do some ironing (some on those things called mangels). I was not overworked and was terrible when it came time to clean my room and seldom had to do dishes.
The dog cage incident may have been a little excessive, especially if the child thought she had been abandoned when the parents left the house.
My 10 yo crawled in the dog's crate the other day and got stuck. I was laughing so hard--I made him wait while I took a picture before I got him out.
Arrest me.
Leaving the home was a mistake and falls under child endangerment. Locking her up... well she did just run away. But a dog crate seems excessive.
Moral Absolutes Ping.
There have been many stories of child abuse of varying degrees of cruelty lately (there are always such stories, but they seem to be on the upswing lately). This story is not among the worst, the child is whole and still alive. But a couple of thoughts (also connected with an editorial I will ping out next):
1. If children, before birth, are merely abortable tissue, when does the magic change to "human" occur? The value of human life is diminished all across the board if some of of so little value that they can be killed with impunity. Evidence of this is that child abuse has not lessened since Planned Parenthood's "Every Child a Wanted Child" method of aborticide has become legitimate; in fact it has increased.
2. Mass culture influences children in the form of cartoons, movies, pop culture of every kind, slut clothes, and not the least, the leftist anti-family propaganda that saturates much of public school education. All this combined brings children to the lowest common denominator. How many parents have experienced that their small children are reasonably well-behaved and innocent, only to find that a few years of public school and immersion in mass culture (and hanging out with other kids with the same influences) and their children are now profane, insolent, worldly wise, wise-a**ses?
3. With so many marriages broken, with one third of all children in the US born to unmarried mothers (around 75% and up for black children), so many mothers even of tiny infants working and placing their 2 week old babies in day care, is it any wonder that many children are very, very ill-behaved? An ill-behaved child is a miserable child.
4. Horrible treatment to a child is often irreparable. Even kindly, loving parents who know how to disicpline properly can fail with a foster or adoptive child who has had several years of abuse and/or neglect.
The future of the world depends on children who are raised to be proper humans. We are failing egregiously in this regard as a country.
Many of you may be saying, but there are millions of well-raised children who aren't like this.
To this I say: There are millions of children who are so messed up that they will have a very, very difficult time growing into responsible, generally happy adults who will become good parents. It is a terrible tragedy.
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C.P.S has used flimsy excuses( there were dirty dishes in the sink ,there were crumbs on the table) in the past to a separate kids from their real parents.I know of one case where a foster child tried to run home to his real parents.If this is one of those cases the actions of the foster parents were inexcusable.
Three hots and a cot...er...two bowls and some straw. In any event she had a 'room with a view'.