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LafayetteLady -> RE: People of Wal-Mart (6/25/2010 9:21:55 PM)
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ORIGINAL: laurell3
LOL really? Do you know much about the foster care system in America? The Americans have a saying for it, "it sucks". Are you really naive enough to believe that there aren't as many risks for this child in it as with their parents? There are no perfect answers in this situation. Hate all you want. Everyone makes mistakes. Hopefully this couple will get help and be part of this child's life.
Sorry, but you can't fall back on the "mistake" argument. Yes, they are druggies. Yes they probably offered to sell the baby for drugs, but this isn't a "mistake." These people have no right to their child.
Children services have many many problems and personally, I think it needs to be privatized an the laws related to them completely revamped. But the reality is that of the 100s of thousands of children in foster care, statistics show that about 1% die. Is even that small amount too much? Of course. But the point is to realize the number of children who aren't placed in abusive homes and are eventually even adopted by wonderful loving people. Any child being abused, or dying through the system is too much, but that doesn't mean the alternative is better.
And I DO know quite a bit about the foster care system in this country. Do YOU realize that all you read about is the horrible failures? We don't get articles about when something great happens. When a child is placed and thrives and succeeds and it is primarily because of the love of a stranger. I hate using the example, but look at the move "Blind Side." Technically not a foster care placement, but there are others as well. More successes than failures, and by the way, the statistics are all available as public records.
To say this was simply a mistake, and through a drug rehab program these people should get the baby back is so naive about the facts that it's scary. The will be Children's Services first thing to do. If you get to the point that you are going to sell your kid for a bag a dope though, your chances of getting through rehab and cleaning up enough to deserve your child returned are pretty slim. Better than both be forced to be sterilized and then allowed to go on their merry drug induced way.
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