Posted on 02/12/2018 11:31:54 AM PST by nickcarraway
Cops have to pursue every call, unfortunately. Happily, the cops in the story had some common sense. I can’t imagine calling cops over a kid’s messy hair and odd pants. But some people are just busy-bodies.
I agree. The cops were just doing their job. And did it well. And the other parents acted out of good faith with limited information.
I always err on the side of letting the parents get away with abuse. I take very seriously the motto, “not my kids”.
It has to be quite blatant before I’ll get involved. And I don’t mean seeing parents beating their kid in public. I mean seeing them SEVERELY beating their kid in public while smelling of Jack Daniels.
Not my kids. God gave them to someone else. I’ll intervene only when asked, unless the situation is unquestionably grievous.
My take as well. I hope the cops had a word with the busy-bodies after speaking with the parents.
Have we lost the right to simply be left alone?
Agree
I live in Georgia so Hell yes I would damn sure seriously consider it, if you lived here you would too.
Especially since the policeman was so apologetic. He was required to follow up on the call.
Effing jerks. My son with autism had a tantrum in McDonalds one day and kicked his dad to the point of injury (dad had a severely bruised hand for weeks). Some idiot asked an employee to call the cops because of child abuse. The employee had the guts to come see what was going on and rightly chose not to get the police involved.
It is very difficult to take kids with autism into public. Please think twice when you see kids with issues. My son was so smart he would even yell this is not my mom! when he was tantruming in a store, and I was dragging his butt out, knowing that was what he SHOULD yell if he were being kidnapped.
And one night the neighbors in the apartment below came up in their pajamas and demanded to see the baby that I wasnt torturing him. I was only trying to put his pajamas on him, which he did not want.
Life with a kid with autism is 300% harder than life with a kid without autism. I agree that the public needs to consider this possibility when they see a conflict with a child, or a child with weird clothes or hair.
I live in New York where people walk around in bicycle shorts with temperatures as low as the teens. I’ve been to Georgia, and yes it gets very hot, but I would never call the cops over somebody’s clothing choice. We need to stop being such busy bodies!
Messy hair does NOT indicate “mistreatment”!!!
Sorry, I think YOU are way too budinski!
Great Spirit, grant that I may not criticize my neighbor until I have walked a mile in his moccasins.”
Exactly!
I agree. The people who called probably were not thinking of Autism. They likely did not call just because the hair was messy and the pants too short. They may have observed that the parents were not interacting with their son as much as expected when families are together at a park. People just don’t think neglect because of hair and pants. They had no way of knowing about Autism. I think the police handled this very well. I think the parents should be happy that there was someone observant enough to be worried that something might be wrong and cared enough to call.
We homeschooled our kids with powerful academic success. Hardly a day went by that my wife wasn’t questioned by strangers because the kids were out and about during school hours. As far as I am concerned people can mind their own damn business. Fortunately my wife handled those circumstances and not me. As you may well imagine. The world is full of useless busybodies. It most certainly does NOT require a whole village of idiots to raise a child.
It was my first child and I didnt know what I was doing wrong. It was horrible. By his age 10 I learned to leave him home for everything. He couldnt handle family parties or a trip to the store. He is still so smart, he can compensate much better now, and he is a great person.
I saw an Asian mom in a very Asian neighborhood with a boy having an obvious autistic meltdown in front of a mall she wished to enter. Poor thing, she was terribly embarrassed and was still trying to get him to go in. I was driving or I would have tried to help, but it could have been she didnt speak English and I would have only mortified her more. (Help would have meant give it up, go home, or distract him with a bit of favorite food, etc)
I hate to ask people personal questions, but when you put it that way... You lived up to your end of the bargain did she...
Apparently these idiots that called the cops never tried to comb a kid’s hair.
Requires a bribe, a sleeper hold, and some amount of super power.
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