Posted on 12/08/2008 8:25:57 AM PST by NormsRevenge
I can hardly wrap my mind around the awful things that this boy endured.
I do wonder though if his mother and the women who she gave custody to and who later so horribly abused Kyle were lesbian lovers. And if this women was in a sexual relationship with the other couple in that house. Because in the back of my mind is a little niggling remembrance that says there have been several high profile cases of lesbian lovers torturing children in their care.
Numerous cases for the death penalty.
All the abusers mentioned here do not deserve to breath the same air as human beings.
“Studies show as many as 15 percent of children in wealthy nations are physically abused by guardians each year”
I stopped reading right there. When an article starts out with madeup BS numbers the rest of it is BS too.
The cruelty of some people cannot be underestimated and I cannot see how any agency no matter how well funded can prevent all the cases.
The correlation of abuse with ‘live in’ fathers or other non-married type of arrangement is very high.
I remember when we had lots of trains it was called a train wreck.
lots of high profiles cases of hetero sexual couples abusing their foster and adopted kids, too.
Ah the Lancet.
I begin to see why numbers like 15% are being thrown around - the Lancet has long since become a comic, with its ludicrous medical statistics being the running joke.
Yes, I would ask what constitutes abuse?
I’ve heard of plenty of hetero people abusing kids.
From 2000-2002 In California, there were 68.6 per 1,000 emergency responses per 1,000 population under the age 18 for child endangerment/abuse.
When did “plane wreck” come into standard usage?
I never said that was not the case. But I do have to wonder if we can expect to see more of these cases.
Based on the really horrific cases I have read about over the years, I couldn't agree with you more.
Unfortunately, there have been no validated studies done in this area because the conclusion (that children are nurtured best in loving heterosexual families (natural or foster) with married parents) is too un-PC for the social services "experts" to accept. I know this is too harsh, but it seems like the severely abused and murdered children are considered just grist for the social services' "we need more personnel and money" mill.
I think it might have more to do with the instability and lack of connection a non married partner has to his or her partner’s children than to sexual orientation. But I would be wrong if I did not admit I think in the cases where a lesbian couple have been abusing a male child that some of it stems from the very fact the child is male.
But since it is socially incorrect to even suggest abuse pathology is more likely to rise out of non married relationships. I imagine suggesting that additional factors may come into play in the cases of lesbian couples accused of abuse would be met with cries of homophobe and reminders that lesbians are gentle dolphin like creatures unlike those bruting hulks of mean ole nasty global warming culprits smelly men!!
Gee, why would anyone lack faith in a system so utterly broken and completely morally bankrupt?
Often these are people who sexually get off on torturing the innocent.
I'm sorry if they had problems when they were young ( and I kind of doubt this - it has the feel of "liberal lie") - but when someone tortures a child, they should be put to death by the state. There's no reason to have a death penalty if these types of monsters can't be put down.
The main cause of this type of abuse is evil - old fashioned evil.
this is incredibly sad. Unfortunately, it is all too common. The social services department in my state is really overburdened with cases. I feel terribly sorry for the kids and sorry for the social workers as well. The ones I have dealt with as a foster parent were terrific, but overworked. They are also underpaid, I think, for the work they do. As for the foster parents—ones that do their jobs right don’t make anything.
We don’t value kids in this society. We pay criminals who are pro athletes millions of dollars a year for what? To catch a ball. Yet, when it comes to kids who needs help, we pay what? A small fraction of that to social workers and they are the ones who’ll make a difference.
There are tons of good foster parents out there—straight and gay, but they don’t make the news.
I would like to tell people that there are about 500,000 of foster kids in the US. There are about 100,000 kids in foster care waiting for permanent, loving homes. If you care about kids, please consider helping out at:
www.adoptuskids.com
http://www.mtwyouth.org — This organization provides job training to kids who are aging out of state care in Massachusetts—they give a hand up, not a hand out.
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