archie bunker wrote:
I have to disagree somewhat, WCS. I've seen a lot of pictures myself. Some real, some fake, some old, and some new. The new ones look a helluva lot better than the old ones from the swarm of. 2014/15. They aren't being put up in the Holiday Inn by any means, but they aren't sleeping on concrete bunks in cages either. They have clothes, shoes, medical care, activities, and counseling. Like any other kids, they require a certain amount of confinement, and control for their own safety.
I really don't see how you can separate this from what American kids go through when their parents are incarcerated either. Here in Texas, if an American mother/father is arrested for, say, outstanding traffic tickets with a child in the car, where they might have to serve something like 20, or 30 days, the kid has to go somewhere. If another parent, or family member isn't available to take them, they go to CPS, and then foster care. If you think that's not traumatic for them, think again.
Unfortunately, I have a little experience with this, so I have a pretty good idea how it works.
I have to disagree somewhat, WCS. I've seen a lot ... (
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You just proved what I said earlier about WCS not reading much of my link, or at least ignoring any of it that doesn't fit his thinking. The little video was about how the little girl was feeling about her foster home and the treatment she was getting. Of course, these leaners don't like to see things like this because it does prove too much about things like CPS.
Hey, Arch, I just got a late father's day card from my former foster daughter that is a real rouser about animal farts. I think that many people thought she had been mistreated by us about a week after she came to live with us at 17. We had grounded her for a week after she tried to sneak in late one night. The people from the home she came to us from thought we had been too tough on her but after talking with her decided she had the punishment coming. She has been like that with kids she coached ever since then and I was her coach 3 of her 4 years in high school. We fed her good, took her places she wanted to go and things like that and she was always satisfied.
A couple of weeks ago her son won the Arkansas high school high hurdles at the state meet. He turned right around and won a big Decathlon in Dallas the next weekend. Of course, she was the best hurdler in Kansas when she was in high school and not a bad Heptathlete, either.