Posted on 04/24/2008 11:32:47 AM PDT by traumer
SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) -- Many of the children have seen little or no television. They have been essentially home-schooled all their lives. Most were raised on garden-grown vegetables and twice-daily prayers with family. They frolic in long dresses and buttoned-up shirts from another century. They are unfailingly polite.
The 437 children taken from the polygamist compound in West Texas are being scattered to group homes and boys' and girls' ranches across the state, plunged into a culture radically different from the community where they and their families shunned the outside world as a hostile, contaminating influence on their godly way of life.
The state Child Protective Services program said it chose foster homes where the youngsters can be kept apart from other children for now.
"We recognize it's critical that these children not be exposed to mainstream culture too quickly or other things that would hinder their success," agency spokeswoman Shari Pulliam said. "We just want to protect them from abuse and neglect. We're not trying to change them."
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- Many of the children have seen little or no television. They have been essentially home-schooled all their lives. Most were raised on garden-grown vegetables and twice-daily prayers with family. They frolic in long dresses and buttoned-up shirts from another century. They are unfailingly polite.
Sounds like life for children in the Bruderfhof, on Amish and Old Order Mennonite, and Old Quaker communities. Life without the common culture. I understand the sexual piece, but why do these children need to be forced from their protected lifestyles?
Sure you aren't....I am no fan of religious cults but there are several things about the way this thing is going down that I find very troubling. This could result in some pretty crazy legal precedents.
Waco II.
I thought these kids parents were supposed to be the devil’s spawn. I guess the Bible was somewhat off base with the idea, “By their fruits ye shall know them.”
I like the way the term “home schooling” makes it’s way into this debate as often as it does. I’m sure there’s no attempt to instill a negative connotation to that practice huh.
CNN just can’t imagine a primate on the planet that doesn’t hang on every word uttered by their sage soothsayers.
It sounds as if they are saying the children are physically healthy, better educated and more polite than many mainstream kids, but by golly they will cure that ASAP!
So I guess they will ease them in to mainstream society?
Start with Oprah and work up to reality TV?
It sounds as if they are saying the children are physically healthy, better educated and more polite than many mainstream kids, but by golly they will cure that ASAP!
Tragic.
The state knows best. /s
“I understand the sexual piece, but why do these children need to be forced from their protected lifestyles?”
Huh?
“I understand the sexual piece, but why do these children need to be forced from their protected lifestyles?”
The sexual piece is the early marriage to older men.
McDonald’s and American Idol will be their crack cocaine - until they actually work their way up to...crack cocaine. Then we will know they are successfully integrated.
/s
but why do these children need to be forced from their protected lifestyles?
Answer:
Because no one in the compound was able to protect the children from being sexually abused, raped, and impregnated.
WTG, Texas. Not being sarcastic here. I mean it!
“protected lifestyle”
Those girls were like veal calves, just waiting to be harvested -— and similarly “protected.” The boys, when they came of age, were kicked out the door, so as not to compete sexually.
That temple is a whitewashed tomb — pretty on the outside, but filled with corruption and death on the inside.
Your post was spot on!
“It sounds as if they are saying the children are physically healthy, better educated and more polite than many mainstream kids, but by golly they will cure that ASAP!”
Maybe thats why they want to keep them away from other foster kids....it ain’t the culture shock to the compound kids that is worrying them. LOL.
I agree with some other posters here...this doesn’t pass the smell test. Not at all.
I haven't been watching TV for ~ 5 yr or so. Being a secular independentist, have the MSM had any true insights during the last 5 yr?).
Due Process no longer applies where the state feels it to be inconvenient.
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