Posted on 04/29/2008 11:10:38 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
If you watch much television, you've probably heard of a product called Mike's Hard Lemonade.
And if you ask Christopher Ratte and his wife how they lost custody of their 7-year-old son, the short version is that nobody in the Ratte family watches much television.
The way police and child protection workers figure it, Ratte should have known that what a Comerica Park vendor handed over when Ratte ordered a lemonade for his boy three Saturdays ago contained alcohol, and Ratte's ignorance justified placing young Leo in foster care until his dad got up to speed on the commercial beverage industry.
(Excerpt) Read more at wzzm13.com ...
And I will wager the taste he got was as bitter as the lemonade.
you missed your sarc tag!
So you are a believer that the government knows better than you on how your child needs to be raised. Obviously, the parents of whom you speak are the exception so lets not play silly games. On the whole, most parents know waht is good for their kids. If you think otherwise then you must not have children of your own or are completly dependant on the gov’t for your marching orders.
In the real world most child abuse takes place at the hands of...parents. Not all parents are good for their children's welfare. So there is no easy and quick generalization that covers all the scenarios, as you have stated. But, as time goes on, you'll learn that.
Isn’t it naive at best to think that this story is of the exception, not of the Norm, and that most people are good parents? If not then you, my friend, have much to learn. especially if you think that the government will do a better job than “most” parents. Keep working on that reading thing.
Now it's "most people are good parents?"
What about: "Child rearing needs to be left to the parents...and only the parents"? When you (you) speak in absolutes, you get answers in absolutes.
I found some "pretty" beverages to serve. Fortunately, my daughter read the labels, or I would have been guilty of serving minors!
“Sharp shooting” is a good way to refine the argument and I will give you that but you have not refuted the question of governments role in family life. Is the government more qualified than you to raise your kids? That is even if you have kids. Are you suggesting you have never made a mistake that could be taken completly the wrong way and just got lucky because “big brother” wasn’t there watching?Again I ask, where do you stand?
Oh Hell NO!
I worked under contract providing medical services to Childrens' services. They, (in the name of their executive director) in turn, tried to get a contract on me (called a "hit.") Such was my criticism of them and their reaction to it. The judge was alerted by someone who tattled and the CS director went down in flames and off to prison. I got a permit to carry in Ohio because of it.
I guess we have been discovered as two operatives of the same mind who were firing at each during the darkness of night. Ha ha ha ha ha.
Once the brain stops developing that’s it - no more cell replacement.
It’s for the children....
And most car accidents happen within 5 miles of home.
And people who are 50, on average, live to an older age than people who are 30.
I hope the point is not lost on you.
The State is now the legal guardian for all children - the Law just hasn’t caught up
Not lost...It just doesn't apply in this case.
Oh, the irony of it all!
Only the cuban ones.
I think Latricia Jones and her accomplices should be charged with kidnapping.
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