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#80446 - 03/06/06 01:53 PM
Re: protecting youth?
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Queen of Shoes
Registered: 05/24/04
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Loc: Arizona
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It's sad but the victim has to bear the burden of proof and often can't but let me explain why. Many, many times, there will be a rebel who wants to get even with one of the parents and report abuse where there isn't any. Many times a parent has been arrested and charged, only to find out there was never any abuse. The teenager was just angry.
On the other side, CPS will be called in and the child will be removed from the home and placed in a foster home. And a lot of times the authorities decide, hey, she's 17...it won't be that long until she can leave on her own. These people decide what a child's life is going to be like, sadly.
Remember me telling you about that abused baby my daughter was caring for in the hospital? They released him to his grandmother, which will probably give the abusers access to him. So far, CPS has done nothing. I think they are so overwhelmed and not enough social workers so that said, they probably decided a slap across the face was nothing.
It's a sad world.
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#80450 - 03/08/06 04:40 AM
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Registered: 10/11/05
Posts: 645
Loc: boise
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Smile,
This is so terribly terrible. And for we Mothers who have had ill children, fighting every day for their very lives and to keep them from any harm at all, it's just more than I can hardly stand. Not that I don't fight for my healthy one, but you get my meaning...
As far as the drugs go....I do think they play a major part in abuse today, but I also think this: In my parents' day for instance, I think there was much child abuse going on. Part of that was that they didn't call it abuse then, and partly because if it was abuse, nobody talked about it. And I don't think drugs were really the issue then. I just think that our population has increased to such a degree - and with more people, more problems.....A lot of factors...Poverty being one also. And alienation. Especially from family. You know, I think it was harder to "misbehave" (such a silly term for such a horrible crime)when towns were small and family was watching...
Well, the only thing to do now, is to report all of it, watch and tell....
I'm thinking of little Kelsey.
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#80451 - 03/08/06 05:22 AM
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Registered: 10/22/05
Posts: 254
Loc: ND
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I'm with you, Searcher. I have always been so saddened when hearing of abuse of any child. Now, though, after the death of my daughter, I get so angry at the unfairness of it all. Here I sit, grieving for my daughter, while someone else is abusing theirs. If there is one thing I've learned, it is that life is not fair. Period.
One mother whose teenage daughter was rebeling, actually told me that the girl was not planned and she wished she'd never been born. I could not believe the woman would say that to me as I was grieving for my own daughter. Growing up with the mother's attitude, it is no wonder the girl rebelled.
My heart simply breaks for children in abusive homes.
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