> Ron, Foster kids are like 1% of all kids in the US
No they aren't. The remaining 99% are not abused, or at least their
parents haven't been caught at it.
> but they suffer 5% of all child abuse,
Bogus figure. As I've posted here for many years now, foster parents are
under such a high level of scrutiny by not only CPS but by a group of
providers of various services; medical, dental, school, therapy, court
review, visitation by parents, BY LAW, that parents are not subject to
BY LAW, that the count is pointless.
> at the hands
> of the Fosters.
Interestingly that has not been proven. It simply says, "in foster
care." A true estimate of actual abuse by foster parents themselves is
buried in the "other caretaker" data.
> Keep up with the good work
> on the stats.
He's way behind, for the reason that parents are protected in this
country from government intrusion. Child abuse is one of the most
difficult of crimes to uncover for that reason alone.
And it is easy to HIDE child abuse.
It's not like B&E with broken window that everyone can see, with the
brick laying inside the building.
The public does not even get to SEE THE BUILDING, in this case the
child, unless the parent allows it.
Small babies don't complain. And their infant injuries are often not
even discovered until later years when an allegation of a current abuse
brings them to be examined.
> Maybe you can get so whipped
> by stats that instead of blabbing them you will
> resort to talking up how STATS LIE, as Kane has.
They do. They mostly underestimate the problem. We tend to do that.
It's a cultural thing.
We do NOT want to think of ourselves as a nation of child abusers.
We aren't actually, compared to some countries, but we do our share, so
to speak.
And logical people that are honest know perfectly well it's horrifically
UNDER reported.
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honest people also know that all sorts of other things are also
underreported..............gov'ment bureaucrats have a well-deserved
reputation for hiding their f.ck-ups...............in particular, cps
is widely understood to be a self-serving make-work bureaucracy that
has such a bad reputation for trying to hide its mistakes that it has
lost widespread public support..............unable to get the ear of
congress, its arrogant toadies have been reduced to making their
pathetic case to bemused posters in little
newsgroups...................
]:^< runs around her dog lot barking about honest people know child
abuse is underreported...............
0:-> - 19 Jun 2006 17:48 GMT
> honest people also know that all sorts of other things are also
> underreported..............gov'ment bureaucrats have a well-deserved
> reputation for hiding their f.ck-ups...............in particular, cps
> is widely understood
The general public knows little of child protection issues. You are
lying, lil 'o'.
to be a self-serving make-work bureaucracy that
> has such a bad reputation for trying to hide its mistakes that it has
> lost widespread public support..............
Nonsense. Even local limited fuckups get cranked up by some muck raking
media into what appears to be statewide, or even national, malfeasance
in child protect. A crock of bullshit propaganda masquerading as 'news.'
> unable to get the ear of
> congress,
Not true since and even before CAPTA. You certainly are an ignorant sot.
its arrogant toadies have been reduced to making their
> pathetic case to bemused posters in little
> newsgroups...................
And the major media. And I'd hardly call child abuse a "pathetic case."
> ]:^< runs around her dog lot barking about honest people know child
> abuse is underreported...............
I notice you are unable to refute my claim.
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maggie_smythman@yahoo.com - 21 Jun 2006 04:12 GMT
the amusement isn't that children are abused.............it's that cps
apologists think that they are the solution.................they're
like the perennial nut-jobs, with religious tracts in hand ranting,
about how they have the solution for life and eternity.................
]:^< runs around her dog lot barking about cps as a savior of
children.................
Ron - 22 Jun 2006 12:40 GMT
> the amusement isn't that children are abused.............it's that cps
> apologists think that they are the solution.................
They know they are not the solution dearie, but they do know what the
solution is.
Can you figure out what it is that they already know?
Ron
Dan Blather - 22 Jun 2006 13:18 GMT
>> the amusement isn't that children are abused.............it's that cps
>> apologists think that they are the solution.................
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>
> Can you figure out what it is that they already know?
That you're a MoRon?
> Ron
Ron - 22 Jun 2006 18:43 GMT
>>> the amusement isn't that children are abused.............it's that cps
>>> apologists think that they are the solution.................
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>
> That you're a MoRon?
Nice try, but that one is a bit old. Try something original.
So, I'll pose the same question to you, since it seems that you insist on
entering a conversation that you obviously know little about. Lets try and
expand your intellectual horizons just a bit.
Can you figure out what it is that they already know?
Ron
BTW, Blather seems to be an accurate description of your posts to date.
maggie_smythman@yahoo.com - 25 Jun 2006 04:41 GMT
ooooooooooooh my, we've got one nut-job saying cps is the answer, if
only it had enough money, and the other saying it
isn't...................
ronnie says cps isn't the answer while ]:^< says it
is....................
0:-> - 25 Jun 2006 05:12 GMT
> ooooooooooooh my, we've got one nut-job saying cps is the answer, if
> only it had enough money, and the other saying it
> isn't...................
>
> ronnie says cps isn't the answer while ]:^< says it
> is....................
Interestingly we are not negating each other's statements at all.
If people with children would get their sh.t together CPS would be
redundant and useless.
Since they don't, it's what we have at this time.
What have you got?
I've asked before, haven't I, lil 'o' and you seem reluctant to
contribute but more than happy to play sidewalk superintendent on Monday
Morning.
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Ron - 26 Jun 2006 00:36 GMT
>> ooooooooooooh my, we've got one nut-job saying cps is the answer, if
>> only it had enough money, and the other saying it
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> I've asked before, haven't I, lil 'o' and you seem reluctant to contribute
> but more than happy to play sidewalk superintendent on Monday Morning.
Kane is absolutely correct maggie dear. He knew the answer. You obviously
didn't.
The solution is parents NOT abusing and / or neglecting their children.
Eliminate those problems and you can eliminate the need for CPS and Foster
parents, completely. Therefore CPS is NOT the solution, it is nothing more
than a bandage on the problem until the real solution can be realized, or
until something better comes along. So far, from the wack-jobs on the
anti-CPS front, nothing. Until they can come up with a better bandage, or
make the actual solution happen, they need to STFU and listen to those of us
who know the problems as well as the solution.
Ron
maggie_smythman@yahoo.com - 26 Jun 2006 04:16 GMT
right, ronnie.......................no one knows anything except ]:^<
and you.................it's time to park your bureaucratic
hummer.................taxpayers are tired of paying for your g-a-s
consisting of equal parts of greed, arrogance, and
stupidity...................
phony moronnie thinks he has all the answers........................
0:-> - 26 Jun 2006 04:25 GMT
> right, ronnie.......................no one knows anything except ]:^<
> and you.................it's time to park your bureaucratic
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>
> phony moronnie thinks he has all the answers........................
Then you admit you do not?
So THAT'S why you haven't answered the challenge to create something
better than you criticize.
Tsk. lil 'o', you outdo yourself.
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maggie_smythman@yahoo.com - 26 Jun 2006 04:10 GMT
you sound like some blowhard preacher trying to explain away
contradictions in the bible................
]:^< runs around her dog lot barking it's all the parents fault that
she's a little tax sucking cps toady...............
0:-> - 26 Jun 2006 04:24 GMT
> you sound like some blowhard preacher trying to explain away
> contradictions in the bible................
>
> ]:^< runs around her dog lot barking it's all the parents fault that
> she's a little tax sucking cps toady...............
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> Ron, Foster kids are like 1% of all kids in the US
> but they suffer 5% of all child abuse, at the hands
> of the Fosters.
0.47% gregg, not 5%. Try and keep up dude, your lagging behind the rest of
the group.
Ron
Greegor - 06 Jul 2006 10:13 GMT
Yes, Ron, I am sure you'd like to seel Foster care as
being statistically safe for kids.
It is disproportionately risky.
What? You're a Nebraska Foster contractor?
What an amazing point of view given that!