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DCF's notorious failures are outpacing even the big increases inits appropriations because family disintegration itself is outpacing thoseappropriations.
MySpace.com hysteria lets politicians off easy
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/apps/...1/1014/OPINION In his movie "Play It Again, Sam," Woody Allen depicts himself as a nebbish alone on a couch with a young woman who is dressed provocatively and speaks constantly of her desire for sex. But when the nebbish works up enough courage to pounce, she throws him off, indignantly demanding, "What do you think I am?" That may sum up Connecticut's silly controversy about the popular "social networking" Internet site MySpace.com, which is under assault by Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, other state attorneys general and state legislators for facilitating sexual predation against minors. The officials want to require MySpace and similar sites to get the approval of parents before letting minors post their personal profiles. The attorneys general also have compelled MySpace to produce a list of sexual offenders who have posted their own profiles. But the politicians might as well seek to outlaw telephones, cars and roads, earlier innovations of "social networking," which these days is, after all, often just a polite term for sexual solicitation, what with so many adolescents flaunting themselves on the Internet as provocatively as the young woman on the couch in Woody Allen's comedy. And it all is happening right under the noses of parents. Or it would be happening under their noses if half the children in the country had parents. This is the real problem, but it cannot be discussed by the politicians campaigning against MySpace. For then they would have to condemn their own constituents. If Willie Sutton robbed banks because that's where the money was, sexual predators gravitate to "social networking" sites because that is where the sexually receptive people are. And elected officials act as if adolescence has not always been an obsession with sex, an obsession that can be countered only by parents. Rather than address the lack of parenting, government has developed whole industries purporting to replace it. One of these industries is the force of police who roam the Web sites impersonating minors. These stings produce so many more arrests than there are complaints about sexual predators who have succeeded in meeting minors, that the stings would undermine the MySpace hysteria if anyone thought much about them. At least it still takes two to tango, as suggested by what may be Connecticut's two worst cases of predation against minors via the Internet. The first was that of the 13-year-old girl who was abandoned by her parents and placed with an aunt. In search of the love she never got at home, she developed sexual relationships with men through the Internet. She was murdered by one of them in 2002 after her aunt dropped her alone at a shopping mall. The second was the case of an 11-year-old girl who developed a relationship with a 23-year-old man via the Internet and, while her parents slept one night, let him into her house where he molested her. The man was tracked down and sent to prison, but no one asked if the girl's parents might have been sleeping a little too soundly. The problem behind the "social networking" sites has a much bigger manifestation, but it prompts little comment from Connecticut's officials: the collapse of the schools in the cities and inner suburbs, which are being overwhelmed by children who have become incorrigible from neglect at home, starting with fatherlessness and continuing with unmarried, unskilled and hapless mothers. That's where Connecticut's Department of Children and Families comes in. Like those detectives impersonating minors on the Internet, DCF is supposed to help Connecticut pretend government can be a parent. DCF's notorious failures are outpacing even the big increases in its appropriations because family disintegration itself is outpacing those appropriations. But elected officials are grateful they at least have DCF to kick around and thereby save them from any review of the public policies that might be encouraging family disintegration. Meanwhile, what calls itself the Family Institute of Connecticut, whose name presumes concern with the real problem, instead spends most of its time railing against homosexuals -- the one group completely innocent of the whole mess. CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CIVIL RIGHTS ON A DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WIRETAPPING PROGRAM.... CPS Does not protect children... It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even killed at the hands of Child Protective Services. every parent should read this .pdf from connecticut dcf watch... http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com/8x11.pdf http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US These numbers come from The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. (NCCAN) Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS *Perpetrators of Maltreatment* Physical Abuse CPS 160, Parents 59 Sexual Abuse CPS 112, Parents 13 Neglect CPS 410, Parents 241 Medical Neglect CPS 14 Parents 12 Fatalities CPS 6.4, Parents 1.5 Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per 100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold parents too. No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and death than any human being combined. CPS nationwide is guilty of more human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a bunch of social workers. BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF REFORMING OR ABOLISHING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY ARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION... |
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DCF's notorious failures are outpacing even the big increases in its appropriations because family disintegration itself is outpacing those appropriations.
Kane wrote
Did you vet this with your other socks and Greg before you posted an opinion with this in it, right at the close of the comments? "Meanwhile, what calls itself the Family Institute of Connecticut, whose name presumes concern with the real problem, instead spends most of its time railing against homosexuals -- the one group completely innocent of the whole mess." What part of this was the main point, and what points take a back seat? Which points are you obsessed with Kane? In other words you are posting, for you claim in your sig below, the support of a known "homosexual foster or adoptive parent" supporter. What part of his ""sig"" are you referring to Kane? |
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