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Homeless mom of 15 searches for answers
The Tampa Tribune ^ | April 22, 2010 | Keith Morelli

Posted on 04/22/2010 9:17:52 PM PDT by Iron Munro

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To: Antonello
Also, my wife wasn't adopted by her birth mother's parents. She was adopted by the people she considers her parents, as she should.
61 posted on 04/22/2010 10:11:29 PM PDT by Carling (I'm a neo-McCarthyite ... Obama is a Communist.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

John the Baptist Brown ping.


62 posted on 04/22/2010 10:11:46 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (PALIN/MCCAIN IN 2012 - barf alert? sarc tag? -- can't decide)
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To: kcvl
...have everything they can have as a child to grow up stable

Getting them away from you would be a huge leap in that direction.

63 posted on 04/22/2010 10:12:15 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: hole_n_one

Why am I not surprised at the race of this bunch?


64 posted on 04/22/2010 10:12:16 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: metmom

You have to read this one.


65 posted on 04/22/2010 10:12:46 PM PDT by pandoraou812 (timendi causa est nescire)
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To: Iron Munro
One of them, a 1-year-old, is named John the Baptist Brown.

Does this mean we have to pay for locusts and wild honey?

66 posted on 04/22/2010 10:14:07 PM PDT by JoeDonnellymakesmepuke
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To: Iron Munro
Ten of the children, she said, were fathered by Garry Brown, currently serving a five-year prison term for dealing cocaine. A sampling of his kids' names: Garry Nesha, Garry Brown Jr., Garry Lethia, Garryiell and Garry Rick.

Hint: Don't have children with a drug-dealing narcissist.

67 posted on 04/22/2010 10:14:43 PM PDT by john in springfield
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To: mylife

Your name’s not Garry.


68 posted on 04/22/2010 10:15:36 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (Navy blue)
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To: Iron Munro

I am usually against the state intruding on the womb, but “chronics” such as this woman make me consider the fact that tubal ligation should be required for those who have proven unable to support their previous children.


69 posted on 04/22/2010 10:17:18 PM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: Loud Mime
Why aren’t the fathers in the picture? Who was the partner that produced each child?

They couldn't catch him to get a leash on him...
70 posted on 04/22/2010 10:19:53 PM PDT by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
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To: Understated

There are no words.....


71 posted on 04/22/2010 10:20:38 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (Tant que je vive)
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To: rlmorel
CHILDREN ARE NOT ALWAYS 'BETTER WITH THEIR BIOLOGICAL PARENTS"!!!!! IN MANY CASES IT IS THEIR "BIOLOGICAL PARENTS" THAT ARE THE MAIN PROBLEM!

Perhaps, but who, in their right mind, would want to grant any bureaucratic agency the right to decide which parents are fit and which aren't, and subsequently rip the children away from the parents? The system we have now, with CPS, is one of the most totalitarian aspects of our government ever devised. What greater threat is there than to take away ones children? Just because .00001% of the parents in this country are unfit, we would grant the government the authority to terrorize all of us with threats of stealing our children? Hell no.

The best solution is for neighbors to look out for each other. If a neighbor child has it rough, be a surrogate parent when you can. If the actions of the parents are criminal, call the police specifically for that crime (such as assault or rape).
72 posted on 04/22/2010 10:21:38 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: HospiceNurse

I have personal experience with two separate issues that just cause my blood pressure to skyrocket when I read a statement like “...Children always are better with their biological parents...”

In the first case, I know a man that had a relationship with a woman that resulted in two children. A massive mistake as he admits (not the kids, the relationship) He went to jail for assault, did his time, and turned his life around. He now has legal custody of the two children, who with the help of their paternal grandparents and a capable father (him) are coming around nicely. But while he was in jail and during the time afterwards when he fought for the kids, the DYS mandated that the kids lived with their mother. She is a schizophrenic prostitute who refused to take her medication living in the same house with her convicted pedophile father, and was also engaging in illegal scams. But no matter what, it was only when their father got out of jail, turned his life around and went to court for full time custody of those kids did he get them. DYS would not even consider letting the paternal grandparents have custody. In those two years he was in jail, plus the years after that this fellow fought for custody, those kids were in dire danger (and may have suffered abuse) and did suffer psychological damage. All because the state has the motto “the mother is AlWAYS best for the children”. If this guy had been one of those guys like the majority of those you hear about, those kids would be screwed for life.

In another situation, I know a woman who had a sister that married a Greek guy, had six or seven kids by him, and he took all their money and disappeared one day and went back to Greece without a word. These kids were all about a year apart. The mother was not bad or evil, just slow and not really suited to raising one kid on her own (never mind seven) and when DYS finally got word of it, they were living in an apartment littered with dog feces, partially clothed, feeding themselves on Cheerios and sour milk. The woman’s sister (who had a husband and two kids of her own, living in a small apartment of her own) had to fight to take custody of these seven kids which she did. For several years, they raised these kids as their own, who turned out to be wonderful (one is an officer in the Army now and just came back from Iraq) but this was all done against the will of the state. They had to fight for those kids. Eventually, the biological mother got her act together and got her kids back, but the state fought as hard as it could to destroy the lives of those kids by ensuring they were with their “biological mother” because that is what the state says is “best”. It was only through the compassion, diligence and hard work of her sister and husband that these kids were not lost forever in that shit-hole DYS (Department of Youth Services) system.

And these are just two examples. The fixation on the biological mother is, in my opinion, criminal. While it may be true in many cases, that they treat it as an absolute is an abomination.


73 posted on 04/22/2010 10:24:22 PM PDT by rlmorel (We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
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To: pandoraou812
"I can have as many as I want to," she said. All her kids, she added, "are gifts from God." The 37-year-old mother doesn't work. "This is my work," she said, gesturing toward the bunch. "I do this all by myself. I don't know what I'm going to do. This is a revolving door going nowhere."

She absolutely does NOT do that all by herself. She had the help of at least three guys who knocked her up.

She's just a welfare deadbeat expecting to get handouts so support herself and is using her children to accomplish it.

This is beyond disgusting.

Nobody owes her ANYTHING.

74 posted on 04/22/2010 10:24:59 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: fr_freak

That is not what I advocate, giving the state carte blanche to decide.

What I advocate against is the absolute slavish devotion by the state the children stay with their biological parents, which in many (if not most) cases means the biological mother.


75 posted on 04/22/2010 10:26:41 PM PDT by rlmorel (We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
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To: rlmorel

Thank you.


76 posted on 04/22/2010 10:28:26 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

I agree with you. I feel badly for the children.


77 posted on 04/22/2010 10:30:36 PM PDT by pandoraou812 (timendi causa est nescire)
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To: kcvl
“I’m seeking justice,” she said, “and I’d also like for no other family to have to go through this ever again. I would like to see all my children have their needs met, have a home, have transportation, have everything they can have as a child to grow up stable.”

Fine, you deadbeat. Provide it yourself.

78 posted on 04/22/2010 10:31:14 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Iron Munro

this woman is insane on so many levels. poor kids. did you read the part about the names for the ones whose father is Garry? what’s up with these made up names?


79 posted on 04/22/2010 10:32:47 PM PDT by applpie (u)
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To: Iron Munro

I’m somewhat amazed that she’s been able to afford health insurance to keep popping them out. /sarc


80 posted on 04/22/2010 10:35:42 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (We will secure the borders ..and . never again bring forward another amnesty bill - Ted Kennedy '86)
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