Far too many children in far too many states are being taken from parents for reasons that defy logic and common sense, magnified by racial and class biases. Instead of supporting reasonable parent decisions, child protective services has become an integral part of the surveillance society. This has become especially insidious where health care providers work hand in hand with police and caseworkers when children show up for routine or not-so-routine care.
We need to get back to a system in which only cases in which there is clear and convincing evidence of serious imminent harm to the child at the hands of the parent [warrant intervention]. [P]arents are simply demanding a child welfare system that protects children and families—something that is everyone's right [and doesn't tear the children apart from well meaning parents].
Link: Mom Brings Coughing 10-Month-Old to the Hospital. Days Later, Cops Take the Baby.
An adult who voluntarily puts his children in this predicament is committing abuse. If they are made aware that this is what will happen, they are horrible parents.
You could argue that they should go down fighting. But, I see how it happens that they don't, thinking that the authorities will realize their mistake. Of course, a toddler losing 2 years of his upbringing from his parents?...either way, the state takes some of the most important upbringing time away from the parents, effectively kidnapping their kid forever, and delivering a different kid back to them.
Ya know, we'd all be better off if we were more obedient to "experts." I heard someone even wrote a book with this thesis. Whaddya reckon are the chances he's one of them there "experts," too?
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Man, has our family encountered that with the medical profession.
One of the reasons I find the argument that Americans just don't defer enough to self-proclaimed experts enough so humorous.
Not like school teachers who have a bit more of an advantage over their audience.
And, uh, bud, ahem, "Show how little you know. Teachers are questioned everyday."
Administrators, parents, students, et cetera.
(Pssssttt: this is where you make a snide comment about "middle school teachers," you juicy little, malignant morsel, you!)
always questioned and second guessed. My clients are generally pretty sophisticated, and have their own in house legal folks.
Teachers are the most protected of all public employees once they get tenure. Their second guessing means nothing.
I cost a client a few hundred grand or more, I’m bye bye. Teachers have no such worries. And I’m sure those pesky students and parents are quite a challenge to an open minded chap like you.
You should know the laws better, bud. Then again, why would a lawyer know anything about laws?
"I cost a client a few hundred grand or more, I’m bye bye. Teachers have no such worries."
(chuckling) You're kind of a big deal, too, aren't you, bud? You have to navigate the dangers of angry clients and the mob bosses who know where you live, right, Eliot?
Taking some of your three months off that ordinary people get to grace us with your presence? You should be teaching life lessons to your kid.
Keep trying to deflect away from your incredibly stupid statement that lawyers, doctors, and profs aren't used to being second guessed. In medicine there is even a formal name for it, a second opinion. Although below, you admit to questioning your doctor.
On tenure, I was speaking in general to where I practice. I’m not held to know all of the laws of Neanderthal places such as where you reside, and where I don’t practice. I am well familiar with the teacher tenure statutes where I practice.
He hates experts and elites because, not so deep down, he knows he’s a fraud.
Except on issues of everything. On those he’s an expert.
you play the part of Freudian psychologist! Superb!
Let's see: psychology, criminology (learned from CIS), sports...the assertion of yours that no one argues with the fact that Lebron is the greatest of all time was gold! With each passing year, you get closer and closer to sounding like an actual guy!!!
BTW, what are the areas in which Americans just don't defer enough to experts?
You’re right. Expertise is worthless. Your gut feelings are just as valid.
Dear Twit:
The thesis advanced is that we should defer to authority more than we do. We absolutely should go to an accountant when we need our taxes done. But we should still question and challenge, as, for instance, my family has learned to with docs. Same with any other authentic experts. Upon what you're an expert is anyone's guess, though you weigh in on many things for which it's apparent you know nothing. And to compare the expertise of doctors or carpenters or plumbers to the "expertise" of social "scientists" and political prognosticators is laughable. Shall we compare the "success rates" of the former with the latter?
I don't weigh in with "gut feelings." When you weigh in with some ridiculous claim, I provide some sort of evidence. You, on the other hand, argue, usually simultaneously, through arguments by assertion and arguments by authority: "It's true because it's true and because I say so as an 'expert.'"
Anything that moves in a direction where the Government is telling you how to raise your children raises a red flag.
Your article seems to show a clear abuse.