2011-06-23

Hiding Kids Lands Mother In Trouble


Assuming the kids are alright. Little details are provided. In fact, Yahoo! news is usually short on details.

So. Let's see. Take a mother away from her kids, throw her in jail and split the kids up by sending them into foster care.

That's a solution?
Posted by T.C.

4 comments:

  1. potsoc6/24/2011

    It's not a solution, just a stop gap. Hidden, not sent to school, no proper health care, unsanitary living conditions? Those kids were at risk. Ripping the family apart, jailing mom and dad is very U.S.A. but does nothing to better the situation in the long term.
    The Tea Partyers must be boiling over their kettle.

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  2. T.C.6/24/2011

    I confess I don't know what the exact laws are up here but I'm not so sure we'd do something different. I guess you firmly believe we're a more advanced society - which I don't believe for one second.

    This is a country that constantly over steps its boundaries in family affairs. Forgetting the story of when the judge OVERTURNED a parent's punishment for their kid? The child took the father to court after being punished by her father for doing naughty things on the internet. She won.

    As far as I'm concerned, our family values can be stronger and Quebec is first among them.

    Kids were at risk but were they hurt? If not, what's the problem?

    About the Tea Party, what about them? Theirs is basically an economic movement. I don't believe their platform extends into such situations.

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  3. potsoc6/24/2011

    We do, once a while come upon a cranky judge but most are responsible professionals who do the best they can with the restricted resources that we have.
    In Québec the letter and the spirit of the law is to keep the kids in their family or at least in the extended family whenever possible...and that too can be detrimental to the kids when carried too far too long. No system is perfect nor foolproof.
    But we are less punitive minded than south of the border.
    As for the Tea Party their roots are in the deep religious right and they are very much into punishment and eternal damnation.

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  4. T.C.6/24/2011

    I have no idea if we're less punitive. Maybe. I mean, we did let Karla Homolka off the hook. I know. Different case. But I'm still stunned we have a legal system that would allow for a murderer like that be set free.

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