Some characterizations can be inaccurate:
The more than 400 children taken from the polygamist compound in West Texas are being scattered to group homes and boys' and girls' ranches across the state, plunged into a culture radically different from the community where they and their families shunned the outside world as a hostile, contaminating influence on their godly way of life.
Child Protective Services said it chose foster homes where the youngsters can be kept apart from other children for now.
"Godly way of life"--who says? Some of the children were trying to pretend they were adults; obviously to hide the fact that children were having children.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Foster Care System Challenged By Sect's Youth
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You obviously didn't read the court transcripts. The CPS investigator stated very specifically that there was no evidence of child abuse. She said that she "felt" like abuse may be taking place, based upon what she's read and heard about the FLDS church. There is no fact about child abuse. You shouldn't get your information from the media but instead from factual documents available online. Quite a bit of it contains contradictions about the caller and the investigator.
This story is barely starting to turn around but in the long term some heads will roll. Of course these kids are having trouble adjusting. It's the intent of the state of Texas to "reform" them because they don't meet the low moral standards of present day America. It's easy to accuse these people of vile things because they're different. People have done this to each other for thousands of years. Next up, the Amish.
Touche, Dayvo. I find this a far more "godly" way of life than that described of the children these kids will meet in foster care. They live close to the earth, pray twice daily, dress modestly (albeit a bit out of date), and have manners the likes of which our kids have only seen in "Pride and Prejudice"...and I'd be willing to bet most of our kids have only ever seen the movie, whereas these home-schooled children have probably read it.
God forbid we allow and even encourage these kids to remain "unstained by the world," and it's it horrendously unfortunate that, in order to exist in our sick and deprived world, they have to break down their better-than-ours behavior? The very least we could do is to find families who share their basic religious beliefs - Mormons - and farm them out to those families where they can see modern life lived relatively comfortably within the confines of their beliefs.
I cannot believe these kids are being taken away from their parents....unbelievable!
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