Re: RC: Toddlers

[Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>]

At 02:11 PM 10/10/00, beth glover wrote:
>If the Medical staff member (Doctor, Nurse, Psychologist, of Social 
>Worker) SUSPECTED that it was an innappropriate or potentially dangerous 
>situation that the kid had been put in, they would be mandated by law to 
>report their suspicions to Child Protective services, who are mandated by 
>law to investigate.


WARNING:  Sarcasm and opinion follows!

Here it is, 1984, Brave New World, where Big Brother is going to protect us 
all from having a life.

I watched my brother in law playing with one of his sons last year - he is 
such a great dad!  The kid decided to do a flip and wound up with a 
dislocated shoulder.  Dad got the 3rd degree at the hospital.  Social 
worker and all that.  Normal - healthy - situation made into a dangerous 
one.  A situation where now a child has been traumatized by the Powers that 
Be - seeing his dad treated as if he was an abuser was NOT a pretty picture 
for the kid.  ("How did this happen, son?  Did your daddy maybe twist your 
arm?  Does your daddy hit you?"  Give me a break!)

What's wrong with this picture?  Well, I happen to be one of those people 
who think that maybe being protected isn't always worth sacrificing 
freedom.  Why should we accept being considered guilty before proven 
innocent?  Gee - isn't there something like that in our Constitution or 
somewhere? Lif




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