Re: What is wrong with people? REALLY! OMG

Dani

With all due respect, you are too close to see this objectively I think because of your personal experience. Just putting them in the confined, safe space doesn't equate cruelty or abuse to me. Now if the parents put them in there at 6 at night and left them there till noon the next day, it would be one thing. We don't know they weren't read stories to sleep and had a parent up with them first thing, either. You have one child to keep safe, who is normal and not prone to harm himself or others or be a fire bug (I presume). Most homes don't have enough bedrooms to secure a couple of children who might harm themselves or others during the nighttime hours, never mind 11. If these kids showed no other signs of neglect or abuse (which from what I read seems to be the case), obviously these people are caring for them out of love and compassion, not greed for a few lousy dollars per kid per month from the state. If that was their "thing," I think the kids would have been running around *** naked, sleeping in their own filth, and being starved. If the cages were just part of other issues of abuse, I'd agree wholeheartedly. As it seems to be the only issue, I just for the life of me cannot see what all the fuss is about. Your special needs child was apparently not self-destructive or dangerous to others. What do you do with a child (especially your own that you didn't adopt) who say sits around and bangs his head on the wall or bangs his head on other kids' heads?


DJGordon wrote:
No more than you can say that they do, but the days of living like animals have been over for a long time and every child is entitled to a comfort such as a nice place to sleep. Clay's room is baby proofed where he cannot wrap anything around his neck, cannot "start a fire" - like that would be an issue in a bedroom, no sharp corners, nothing to climb on, and he still has a bed. He cannot get out of his room in the mornings if he were to get up before me, but he has his toys to play with and a comfortable living space, not a damned inhumane cruel stupid cage.

Dani

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