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What do you think about a mother who doesn't take her kids to the dentist, eye doctor or a regular doctor no matter how bad it is?
That girl I reported abuse on recently told me she thinks she needs glasses.
She says things are blurry, etc.
I was only 2 years younger than her when I found I needed glasses and I still need/wear glasses till today and she experiences a lot of what I experience.
People's faces and things being blurry at a distance they aren't for people with glasses on or 20/20 vision.
She told me her mom thinks she's faking it. I don't get how you can fake bad eye sight...but whatever..
And she refuses to take her to the eye doctor because she doesn't want to pay any amount of money for her exam etc.
She was sick for a month and a half a few months back and her mom wouldn't take her to be seen at all. She was deathly ill, hacking stuff up and her mom refused to take her.
This just pisses me off.
It's not like she's asking for new clothes etc..
She wants a frikkin eye exam and glasses so she can see right.
Should I report her parents again via CPS and tell them they refuse to take her to the doctors of any kind and she needs to be seen?
wow why when you have not even talked to the mom . do you think the girl could be making up stories against her mother just to get even with her for punishing her maybe ? I think you need to talk to the mom . I had a little neighbor girl who would tell stories like this to get to go live with her dad and she soon found out no matter how many stories she told she would not get to live with her dad . I think you should talk to the mother and find out the real story , if you still feel like there is something wrong then talk to someone . But good grief you know kids sometimes make up stories right ?
wow why when you have not even talked to the mom . do you think the girl could be making up stories against her mother just to get even with her for punishing her maybe ? I think you need to talk to the mom . I had a little neighbor girl who would tell stories like this to get to go live with her dad and she soon found out no matter how many stories she told she would not get to live with her dad . I think you should talk to the mother and find out the real story , if you still feel like there is something wrong then talk to someone . But good grief you know kids sometimes make up stories right ?
Doesn't seem likely that a kid would make up a story about not being able to see to get back at her mother. A kid might say her mother hit her or didn't give her dinner or something.
Child protective services agencies generally will intervene when:
•Medical treatment is needed in an acute emergency (e.g., a child needs a blood transfusion to treat shock);
•A child with a life-threatening chronic disease is not receiving needed medical treatment (e.g., a child with diabetes is not receiving medication); or
•A child has a chronic disease that can cause disability or disfigurement if left untreated (e.g., a child with congenital cataracts needs surgery to prevent blindness).
In these cases, child protection services agencies may seek a court order for medical treatment to save the child’s life or prevent life-threatening injury, disability or disfigurement.
Although medical neglect is highly correlated with poverty, there is a distinction between a caregiver’s inability to provide the needed care based on cultural norms or the lack of financial resources and a caregiver’s knowing reluctance or refusal to provide care. Children and their families may be in need of services even though the parent may not be intentionally neglectful. When poverty limits a parent’s resources to adequately provide necessities for the child, services may be offered to help families provide for their children.
Is this the same girl you worked on a project with for your police explorer group?
If so, based on Hope's post, I don't think there's anything you can do, or should, for that matter. Not with this family. Perhaps the girl can seek help from her counselor at school, or perhaps one of your explorer advisers?
I grew up in a poor household with 6 siblings. With 9 people to feed and clothe my parents could not afford to take us to the doctor, dentist, ect on a regular basis. I went to the dentist once in my entire childhood.
However, my mom often refused to take us to the doctor because (for some reason I never figured out) she thought we were faking illness. I broke my knee cap on a field trip in 9th grade. I walked home from school with a swollen knee and was in tears by the time I got home. Mom asked me what was wrong and I told her I hurt my knee. She told me to go lay on the couch and she'd look at me later. That later never came and I never did get the knee tended to. I found out 13 years later (after another knee injury) that I had, indeed, broken it.
Her mom can go out and buy new furniture and iPhones but can't "afford" to pay a water bill so everyone can shower once a day or so that my friend can have new clothes after 3 years of not having anything new.
And yes she has health insurance yet her mom won't pay for anything and tells her she is faking it.
Is this the same girl you worked on a project with for your police explorer group?
If so, based on Hope's post, I don't think there's anything you can do, or should, for that matter. Not with this family. Perhaps the girl can seek help from her counselor at school, or perhaps one of your explorer advisers?
My explorer adviser is a woman in her 30's with NO children who thinks that this girl has been exaggerating the truth on things.
It's bull she will do nothing to help her but everything to make life harder on her.
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