JimmyNeal
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And you would have that 90% punished by laws taking away their rights and their grand children's rights to be together as a family because of the other 10% (which I would estimate as only 5% or less)?I am going to go out on a limb and say that 90% of grandparents probably are great people and were great parents. Their children would love for them to be great grandparents.
You keep wanting to talk about bad grandparents and parents. Your world-view is extremely narrow. Parents die every day, leaving children to be cared for. Parents are stricken with mental and physical illness, killed and maimed in a needless war, divorced and thus demonized by the other spouse, and countless other ways separated from their children or somehow unable to care for them. You are advocating for laws that affect all of these innocent people based on a very few bad people who are covered by the criminal system.
Social Services and CASA are needlessly breaking apart families and causing trauma to countless children by their repressive policies, and your attitude here only serves to strengthen my opinion on this. Like your elderly neighbors: You and your other neighbors gawk and talk for 25 years, spreading rumors about people you rarely see and know nothing about. Did any of you ever think to knock on the door and ask if they needed any help?
You mentioned that the woman has agoraphobia, do you know anything about that condition and how it affects people and their families? When an entire community rushes to condemn rather than lend a hand, it's no wonder that they may have greater problems 25 years down the road.
I'm sorry Duranie, but your attitude on family and culture really sucks, and the values you espouse are the same values that have torn the American Family apart. I've seen Social Services and CASA in action and they both are quick to condemn and separate rather than assist and unify. I have a very good friend of 27 years who works for DFCS. She used to work in Child Protective Services and she will tell you the same exact things I am telling you. She has a Masters in Social Work and transferred out of that department because of DFCS' harmful policies and procedures. She couldn't sleep at night knowing that her actions were harming the children and families she desperately wanted to help.
Because of a very small percentage of our culture who range from mentally ill to just plain mean, you support laws that separate children from the family members who love and care for them the most. This is very troubling to me, especially since you claim to work in the system that is supposed to insure the best circumstances for America's children. I can only hope that you will consider the points I have made here and maybe some day you will come to be a true Family Advocate. America is in decline partly because of her piss-poor attitude toward Family Values. If we want our culture to survive we need to correct this problem. You absolutely cannot advocate for children in the absence of their families, immediate and extended.