Bid to divert funds from kids sparks chilling ad { Prop 1d }

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 4/22/9 | Wyatt Buchanan

[SmithL]

Vote for Proposition 1D, kill a baby.

That's the message of a new campaign backed by the Child Abuse Prevention Center.

Prop. 1D asks voters to take more than $1.6 billion in taxes away from programs designed for children ages 5 and younger and use the money to help lower the overall state deficit for the next 5 years.

The Child Abuse Prevention Center, a statewide organization, says that because some of the cuts will affect child abuse prevention programs, "Children will be hurt. Some will die."

A campaign poster screams "Baby Killer" in large type and a child's feet are exposed under a sheet, wearing a toe tag that states "Prop. 1D."

[George from New England]

Cut the money. If these funds go to CPS Child Protective Services; fire them all.

As grandparents, my wife and I have first hand experienced the corruption in two states agencies. Social workers are permanently removing our grandchildren from our lives solely so they can grow government and take more federal funds into state agency coffers. We have perfectly clean criminal records but we care about the grandchildren’s parents too much and so strangers are better for adoption.

Cut their funds — Shut them down.

[domenad]

I thought they were okay with killing babies over there? If it’s a neglected one year old that starves to death, that’s an unmitigated horror. When it’s a baby in a womb, you can take a brush trimmer to that thing, it’s all good. PISS OFF Californ-eye-A.

[dhm914]

do the math, 1.6 billion over 5 years, thats about 300 million a year. california has about 30 million folks, so $10 per person (not all pay taxes) figure less than 5 year olds make up 1/15 population so that is about $150 spent on every less than five year old on average each year

just exactly how is this money spent on these kids???

sounds like a big waste program

[RobinOfKingston]

just exactly how is this money spent on these kids???

By paying the wages of unrelated adults who work for the agency who, when things go wrong, wind up wishing they could have "done more." At that time, more funding will be discussed as a way to "do more."

And so it goes.

[marsh2]

The money does not go to CPS. In our mountainous County of, 6,300 sq. miles, we have established 10 Family Resource Centers. We hold parenting classes there, provide referral services, help grandparents raising children, help children make the transition to kindergarten, build community connections through family fun nights, have community gardens, etc. We also provide a dental van that screens children under the age of five and gets them restorative work. (Children in our area on Medi-Cal have no local dentists. Think Appalachians vs. illegal aliens. This is not S. Cal.)

The brain's greatest development is between the age of 1-5, although there is another small window of growth in adolescence. If a child is neglected or abused during those first 5 years, it can actually stint the growth and size of the brain. This will affect the individual for the remainder of his/her life and is mostly unrepairable. If we want a future with people who are intelligent, capable and emotionally healthy, then we need to affect the population 5 and under. http://www.ccfc.ca.gov/