Posted on 02/12/2018 11:31:54 AM PST by nickcarraway
You should probably stop that.
Five years from now, you’ll be shocked to find out you were engaging in “inappropriate conduct”. (:
It’s fun to, when a liberal woman gets that “in your face, holier than thou” attitude and you look her square in the face, with a grin and a twinkle in your eye, and say, “You’re just so cute when you’re mad.”
What follows is actually a lot of fun.
Proper response:
“I do not want to be engaged”
“I do not answer questions from law enforcement or agents of the state without the presence of my attorney”
Messy hair and family interactions that doesn’t suit a busybody is reason to call the authorities? Give me a break.
I’ve seen several cases where I thought the child was abusing the parent.
Yup. Lots of them on youtube.
That should be on pay per view.
Just the few times I’ve come across seriously autistic children, I’ve realized this has nothing to do with a spoiled kid. If people can’t see that, they are seriously stupid!
First my point was that the call was probably triggered by more than just messy hair and ill fitting clothes. That the person who called may very well have mistaken behavior typical to Autism for signs that the child could be suffering for neglect or abuse. I would rather have someone err on the side of caution. Especially when there have been recent cases in the news where somebody should have taken the time to call.
Some have written the person who called should have talked to the parents. But approaching a stranger to ask rather personal questions about the condition of their child can be at the best awkward and at worst dangerous.
The cops did not go in making accusations against the parents. They told them the situation and observed that everything was fine. It is better they were called then CPS. Since CPS sometimes as an attitude of all abuse all the time.
sorry Kozak but you're wrong, DEAD WRONG......
So sorry that you just don't get it..........
It says that we are increasingly convinced that it is up to every onlooker to assume abuse rather than to give parents the benefit of the doubt when anything, even a child's hair, seems amiss—that this is good citizenship.
More likely wearing a burka or a fake boob belt while slashing throats. Here in NYC, homeless people wear all the clothes they own so not to get robbed by other homeless. Calling a cop over a coat is nutty.
My step kids don’t bathe when they’re at their mother’s home. They’ll go for a full week without bathing. When they come to my house they stink and their hair is greasy. They stink up the house. The 11 year old boy is allowed to wear filthy pajamas and smelly slippers in public. He had lice. CPS says that’s not neglect and there’s nothing they can do about it. We make them bathe which makes them so angry they go to their mother’s house and report us for sexual abuse. So far we’ve been reported eight times, each time unfounded.
Why isn’t it neglect?
The cops did a good job, that I will agree.
I play senior softball with a guy who has an autistic son whose age is approx. 46 years old but looks like he's in his early 20's. Once in a while he brings him out to the park and while it's impossible to communicate with him he acts like a 14 year old and is excited about everything.......
When it come to hygiene there’s a term used by CPS workers called “marginal care”, under which things like messy hair, too-short pants, or even, perhaps, not bathing for a week, would fall.
So as long as it’s deemed to be “marginal care”, then it’s not neglect, which makes sense.
As for the not bathing, that might also depend on whether or not they were periodically sponging off or not, as at some point if you’re not cleaning certain areas, then indeed no bathing at all is neglect.
But the family in this article got reported for messy hair and too short pants.
That report was by an onlooker, not a CPS agent, and did not constitute any determination of neglect. My post was specifically in response to a question about why not bathing for a week is not deemed to be neglect, and the standards CPS workers use to make that *determination*.
Naturally, the standards for starting an *investigation*, either by CPS or by the police, are lower.
I am 66 years old and have never called the cops on anyone.
I love freedom.
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p.s. Your “about” page is a hot mess.
Remember the case not long ago about the family in California with the 13 kids?
The one daughter finally escaped and called the police on a cell phone she’d taken from the house before crawling through a window? The kids were all dirty and near starvation. For years some people had noticed things that looked strange, including the kids sometimes eating out of trash cans and only being allowed to play in the yard at night and often wearing dirty clothes and seemingly terrified to talk to anyone. And the house they left in Texas was a mess and with human feces on the walls and a couple dead animals in the trash according to the woman who purchased it in a foreclosure sale.
Yet no one, even the extended family who had not been allowed to see or talk to the children for several years, ever reported it to the authorities.
Not saying that whoever called the cops on this family wasn’t overreacting or being a busy body but we don’t know what trigged it aside from the messy hair and short pants. At least the cops showed common sense and all ended well, so I sort of fail to see the parents’ outrage.
I understand that. If someone called the police and said they spotted a child wearing corduroys or with a chocolate milk mustache, would the police be obliged to investigate?
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