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The system fails kids every single day. Until you've been through the system you have no idea what it's like. unfortunately, I spent about half my childhood in the system.
School employees can report abuse all day long. That does NOT mean a damn thing is done about it! Ask how I know! Because it happened to me!
Actually, since you made the claim, the onus is on you to bring forth the facts.
Yes, children are abused, in and out of the "system". Do children die all the time from starvation? No.
Yeah, I'm sure that is typical of most poor white homeschool children to get flown around the world to experience the culture of different countries. Thanks for bringing up a man bites dog situation.
Are you familiar with the People to People program? Demographics plays no part in selection. My son was selected to participate.
I've known lots of homeschooled kids who are now well-rounded productive adults
There must be mental illness present on the part of the parents for this to have occurred. They even nailed the bedroom window shut from the outside, so the kids couldn't get out for food or help. One way or another, both parents (now divorced) should be institutionalized; whether in prison or in a mental hospital, if they still have ones for long-term patients.
I could not bring myself to read this story as I lived through the time of "Adopted girl dies after life in most horrific circumstances imaginable" in the 1980's. I am talking about 6 year old Lisa Steinberg. Broke my heart , and has stayed with me all these years as my daughter was close in age to her. Made the national media/news big time. There is a People magazine with her on the cover.
Isn't "mental illness" just a convenient excuse to downplay how inherently bad/evil people can be? "Oh, Hitler hated Jews, but he was just mentally ill" "Oh, Stalin loved having anyone he didn't like killed, he was just mentally ill" "Oh, Pol Pot had anyone he didn't like fit his vision massacred, he was just mental ill" etc. etc.?
Nail on the head. The mental illness excuse tends to absolve one from their wrongdoings and even garners sympathy from others. I think people throw it around too because they have a hard time believing so many people are inherently evil. When someone hears of someone committing a heinous crime, people have a hard time accepting that people can do this in their right mind.
Truly horrible! So sad for the girl and others involved
There have been too many of these types of cases lately, unfortunately. Here in PA it was the Grace Packer situation, there was the one out in Chicago, and quite a few others. Sad.
I could not bring myself to read this story as I lived through the time of "Adopted girl dies after life in most horrific circumstances imaginable" in the 1980's. I am talking about 6 year old Lisa Steinberg. Broke my heart , and has stayed with me all these years as my daughter was close in age to her. Made the national media/news big time. There is a People magazine with her on the cover.
Yes indeed. As heartbreaking as these stories are today, they are (unfortunately) nothing new. There was a pretty bad one way back in the 70's (IIRC) that is quite similar to this one. The young girls name was Silvia Likens, and she suffered terribly at her mother's hands. Makes normal people sick to their stomach to read about these cases, and I fear we haven't seen the last of them.
How do people get approved for adoption? How could the couple get approved for the youngest child (4 yrs old at the time of the kids' discovery) after years of severely neglecting the older two? There had been a history of chronic absences from school, it said.
People who want to adopt -pay out the wazoo. I never get these cases, but when I retire I decided to take up the ad litem program. I know that's an area needs volunteers. Sad and horrific .
Why adopt when you don't care to to take care? This goes for children and pets?
Some people are just pure eveil, no personality disorder or mental illness to be used as a cover.
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Thanks for bringing up a man bites dog situation.
, and has stayed with me all these years as my daughter was close in age to her. Made the national media/news big time. There is a People magazine with her on the cover.
