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Originally posted by purse junkie
In terms of what constitutes enough abuse to justify removal from a home, I don't think there's a hell of a difference between a parent who endangers a kid by beating or neglecting it and one who so monstrously overfeeds their child it has severe health problems at an incredibly young age as a result. Like I said, spend all the tax money needed--even raise my taxes by a modest amount--to train and help the parents hold on to the kid; but yes, if the parent is so severely harming it, it may be safer even in our crappy foster care system.
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What is your definition of severe? Bad knees and hips? How obese is so obese that the kid needs to be removed? If the kid has a thyroid problem and the family's other somewhat fat kids don't, is it abuse because they failed to realize it? Do you realize how understaffed and underfunded child care organizations are now? Do you realize that people won't pay for the 10,000,000 extra children that will need foster care after complying with all of your criteria of what amounts to abuse, no matter how "modest" that amount is?
A lot of unhealthy shit goes on in households. You can't take the kids away every single time you think you see abuse. Think of alternative answers.
TM
