I believe the children are our future... UNLESS WE STOP THEM NOW.

Trump: Making W. Bush look like a distant dream of a far off prince since 2017.

Side note: that needs to be the tune they play in the Game of Thrones credits

My sentiments exactly. It’s forthcoming but also reveals a fairly immoral disposition. The shoulder shrug “what was I supposed to do” question has a simple answer. It’s leadership. It’s hard. Not everyone does it (absolutely including myself), but that’s why there are so few leaders. You are venturing ahead into…

This whole thing was a trash take. I’m shocked she’s putting her name to it.

Shoot out to Illtown all day, but damn Aliya this article was kinda wack. You just compared 3 alleged criminals with a guy who may/ or may not have cheated on his wife. Slow news day much?!?

“B-b-b-but Malcom Jamal Warner might go hungry if he can’t get that sweet syndication check!” - Author logic

This was really a fucked up story of self rationalizations. I mean, really? Come on. You would of been better off leaving this article in the bin.

Parenting 101: Do Not Sell Your Children into Sexual Slavery

There is actually a really good report on the removal of kids from parents with disabilities. I also generally believe that it takes a high bar to remove kids but having worked for both child welfare agencies and developmental disabilities services that bar gets lowered quite a bit when the parents have disabilities.…

But everything is not ok if you are an infant or small child and your primary caretaker has a low IQ. When I graduated from college I was a direct care provider for adults with developmental disabilities and low IQs who were living independently, most of whom had graduated from high school and were working. We…

Supervision only needs to lapse for a few brief moments for tragedy to strike: babies drown in tubs, eat dangerous things, they can even die from being put to sleep on their stomachs.

Really, they would need a full-time live-in nurse to assist the parents and children to allow the children to remain with the…

Oh, our foster care system is totally fucked up. However, I haven’t heard any details about what the social workers actually saw, so I’m withholding judgement. I do know they are, in general, fairly reluctant to remove kids from their families unless the situation is dire - in part because it’s believed to be better…

yeah, but if they had low IQ we know where this would go

Three to seven years in prison for the parents!? THAT’S IT?!

This story doesn’t surprise me at all but disturbs me nonetheless. I work with young adults, many of whom were in foster care at some point and suffered incalculable trauma. Sounds like no real effort was made to provide preventive services to this couple to help them raise their children. This is such egregious…

Also, I have heard of cases where the state bends over backwards to “reunite” abusive parents with traumatized children...and these loving people trying their best are a danger? No.

Eugenics-lite. Oregon is such an interesting hodge podge of crazy.

limited cognitive abilities that interfere with (their) ability to safely parent the child,