If some of the citizens of New Orleans had grown up in cages there might have been a lot less problems.
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It sounds awful though it appears to be less gruesome than first reported. OTOH how could social services expect one couple to care for 11 special needs children?
"``There's no followup because you're giving that family the money so they can incorporate that child into their life,'' she said."
Ok, we've got a candidate for dumbest statement by a government employee.
Sounds more like they were being kept safe in bed at night rather than risk them slipping outside or turning on the stove while the parents slept.
What's the problem? They should move on to the "Bunghole Theory of Raising Children."
It's no wonder relations are strained at street level.
Obviously we don't know the entire story, but I do have experience with adopting a child who has behavioral problems. He put our family through absolute hell for about two years. We were at our wits' end. At night, he would sneak out of his room, go downstair and hide money, hoard food in his room, all kinds of crazy things (he was only 3!). Once, he caught a doll on fire on our back porch.
We didn't know what to do. He was getting counseling, but in the meantime, what? Wait till he burned the house down and killed us all? Wait until he took a knife to his room and hurt himself (We DID find kitchen knives in his room occasionally)? We made the agonizing decision to lock him in his room at night. Believe me, it wasn't something we did joyfully. We knew we were taking a big risk, and we prayed every night for his safety.
Happy ending, though. We only had to do that for a short time. The counseling and endless hours of me working with him paid off. He still has a little bit of emotional baggage, but most of the things he does now are just bone-headed 11-year-old stuff.
I'm not siding with these parents, but I'm not wholesale condemning them either until I know the entire story.
"WAKEMAN, Ohio (AP) - The 11 special needs children removed from a house where authorities say some of them slept in homemade cages are polite, well-behaved, well-dressed and appear to have been fed well, neighbors and authorities said Tuesday."
Damn, need to try it if I ever have kids.
No charges were filed? What the heck...?
Hmmmm....on second thought...
Now there's a high reecommendation for you.
At least Michael Jackson wasn't a frequent visitor to the home!
No indication of abuse, kids well cared for. Why did you send them to other foster homes where that is quite likely not to be the case?
It sounds as if the so called "Cages" were to protect the children from themselves. Sort of like play pens and cribs for physically less capable youngsters.
I recall reading stories from Japan about storage lockers for people. They were found in the airport, they had bedding, and you could rent the cubby for the night.