11-Year-Old Boy Played in His Yard. CPS Took Him, Felony Charge for Parents
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#2Your kids were without their parents for 90 minutes, so we're going to take them for 30 days.
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#3CPS are disgusting scum. This kind of story is reported every week. The government is criminalizing parenthood. Kids can't play in their backyard, they can't walk to the playground, they can't ride their bikes. Do people remember their childhood? When did Americans become so socially retarded?
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#4I say this literally every time a story like this pops up but, as ever, I'll say it again: Have the (adults) in charge completely lost their minds? Is the government so out of touch with reality that this makes sense to them? I loved going on walks or riding my bike to the shops or sleeping in/playing at home when i was 10 or 11, and yet now this seems all but impossible to consider? How the hell did this happen?
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#5Basically this is the evolution towards Minority Report. We are destroying the concept of innocent until proven guilty and are convicting people for what might happen instead of what did happen.
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#6I say this literally every time a story like this pops up but, as ever, I'll say it again: Have the (adults) in charge completely lost their minds? Is the government so out of touch with reality that this makes sense to them? I loved going on walks or riding my bike to the shops or sleeping in/playing at home when i was 10 or 11, and yet now this seems all but impossible to consider? How the hell did this happen?
So true. When people are surprised when 1 boy out of 5 is diagnosed with ADHD. They can't do anything! They're freaking bored!
Millenials are called weak, entitled and useless, but wait for the next cohort of "bright" minds who are gonna lead this country. Will they be able to even feed themselves? Is it even safe to teach a kid how to cook an egg?
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#7I am foreigner, so could someone explain to me - why this is happening? From my discussion similar incidents with other parents it seems like everybody not sure why such attitude exists today. I mean, it should be same adults who have no clue why it is done, pass and enforce these laws?
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#8> The parents decided to have them placed with a slightly problematic in-state relative instead.
Leaving out any issues of rights, that's the biggest issue here: that children get moved from a safe situation into a more dangerous one, in the name of keeping them safe.
Take this recent case in Australia [1]. A father cared enough about his child to voluntarily put him in the state's care, whilst he sorted himself out. The child never came home, as the state placed the child in an unsafe home, and he drowned.
[1] http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/parents-demand-answers-after-toddl...
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#9CPS are disgusting scum. This kind of story is reported every week. The government is criminalizing parenthood. Kids can't play in their backyard, they can't walk to the playground, they can't ride their bikes. Do people remember their childhood? When did Americans become so socially retarded?
These cases are a tiny minority. CPS deals with real horrifying and tragic situations every day.
I'm actually more shocked that there are prosecutors and even judges that go along with this BS. I can believe one insane activist CPS worker here and there, but an entire chain of people to back them up??
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#10CPS are disgusting scum. This kind of story is reported every week. The government is criminalizing parenthood. Kids can't play in their backyard, they can't walk to the playground, they can't ride their bikes. Do people remember their childhood? When did Americans become so socially retarded?
It started in the early 80s and culminated with the kidnapping of Jacob Weterling. During this time local and national news portrayed pedophiles and rapists as serious, common threats to children. There was the absurd McMartin daycare nonsense. The 80s were a time of relatively high crime and it was during this era that zero tolerance policies became the norm. It's when mandatory minimum sentences became the norm and punishments for crimes became very heavy.
As I see things we lost our soul during this time and have not yet recovered it. At this time if you traveled overseas the first question people would ask is if it was safe. Justifying laws and policies in the name of safety was the way to get compliance from the citizenry. It still persists today though people are starting to see the bullshit. Note that the usual way politicians justify curbs on the internet is by mentioning child pornography.