1) I can't believe we have allowed ourselves to get to this place.
1) I can't believe we have allowed ourselves to get to this place. We've made ourselves so frightened and so competitive that we are hurting ourselves.
2) I don't think the New Hampshire research guy read the law. I get that his whole life has been trying to get people to recognize the bad stuff that does happen to kids and trying to change that. Personally, I'd be more concerned about the bit in the law that says parents can do whatever if it's "religion". There are real cases of dead kids from that kind of stuff, not to mention the abused ones.
3) Children are traumatized by being taken from their parents. Parents are traumatized by having their children taken. Trauma isn't only from "real" bad things. So even if it's true that there are vastly more cases of actual abuse going on, that's not a reason to blow off the trauma that attacking families over perfectly normal independent behavior by children can cause. We can recognize all of the above and do something constructive about it.
4) I can't believe we are describing ourselves the same way we describe our food.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43997862
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43997862
2) I don't think the New Hampshire research guy read the law. I get that his whole life has been trying to get people to recognize the bad stuff that does happen to kids and trying to change that. Personally, I'd be more concerned about the bit in the law that says parents can do whatever if it's "religion". There are real cases of dead kids from that kind of stuff, not to mention the abused ones.
3) Children are traumatized by being taken from their parents. Parents are traumatized by having their children taken. Trauma isn't only from "real" bad things. So even if it's true that there are vastly more cases of actual abuse going on, that's not a reason to blow off the trauma that attacking families over perfectly normal independent behavior by children can cause. We can recognize all of the above and do something constructive about it.
4) I can't believe we are describing ourselves the same way we describe our food.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43997862
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43997862
I suppose he’s right in that there shouldn’t need to be new legislation to cover this, given that the existing laws basically say “neglect bad”. So really what’s needed is better definitions for what “neglect” means in the operational sphere rather than the legislative sphere. But guess what? Legislators can only help by legislating.
ReplyDeleteSorry, confused. The people in Utah said that was why they did what they did - to clarify "neglect", since common sense apparently died some time in the 90's. Do you mean New Hampshire guy?
ReplyDeleteYeah, sorry, him.
ReplyDeleteLegit point, and I don't disagree about the training, which should be happening and is needed in the badly underfunded areas that are supposed to protect children.
ReplyDeleteIt's the way the article is written, which I realize could be the writer or editor, not him, but it makes it look like he's suggesting that this isn't happening often enough to matter and is not important because there are children who are really being abused and neglected.