[thinkthenpost]

I hope the reason kids would be taken is because of abuse, and laws related to the abuse that a child has received rather than you get high we take your kids. I know here in El Paso County a great deal of cross work takes place between the designated Drug Court and the Family Court when drugs are involved. I'm not a CPS fan, I'm also not a big government fan, and I'm also not a WOD fan, but I am enough of a realist to understand over 50 or 60 years all the things that drive most conservatives crazy grew and put down roots and became entrenched to the point many folks don't realize something came before, to even have a chance of getting back to some semblance of a free country we aren't going to get there overnight, and we aren't going to get there by throwing each other under the bus. (how's that for a run on sentence?)

[tpaine]

"I hope" you say, we "have a chance of getting back to some semblance of a free country."


I fear the more communitarian 'advocates' we have, the less chance of that.

[Texaggie79]

Believe me, had these parent's not been getting high, and they were treating their children the same way, you would still agree they should be taken out of the homes.

But sadly, it is the drugs alone that make these parents so dangerous for their own kids. Parent that would sell their own childs bodies for access to drugs. Parent who let their 5 year olds take care of themselves for days at a time.

It's down right horrifying, and just about every single one of them, when you talk to their relatives, they tell you that they were never that way, until they got on the meth, or crack or whatever hard drug it is.

If you legalized it, they would still not be able to afford it legally, because they would still be high all the time, and without a job. Hell, if you made it legal alot of them wouldn't have a job because the local drug store would take over. Then they would do even more desperate things for the drugs.