There’s a very high burnout rate among SANE nurses as well. Victim advocates don’t usually last more than a few years. It’s an incredibly stressful and emotionally draining position. Don’t get me wrong, it’s certainly worthwhile and it’s very necessary, but the nurses and advocates need more support during the job as…

She was on Who Do You Think You Are last night, talking to Clare Balding about her great grandfather or whatever, who made his fortune in baking powder. She was fucking amazing!

Oh it definitely is about race once you look closer. Just like most racism you have to look past the surface to see its tendrils snaking its way around. What I described is just the mechanics of a removal but none of what leads up to the primary situation and what goes on under the surface.

So this is how a typical removal goes:

Can attest to this. Had a strong interest in gynecology but during my Ob-Gyn rotation, the residents made it unbearable. Incredibly snarky and sometimes, downright assholes. Couldn’t imagine having them as colleagues until I retired.

I was on my way to become big an Ob/gyn, when every single Ob/gyn resident told me during my fourth year of medical school to pick something else. They were miserable and those that were married (like me) were divorced by the end of their residency. There are cultural problems within the specialty. I picked radiology…

My MIL has this condition. She avoids acidic foods and she’s fine. This seems suspicious.

The most bizarre part of this is when he said he started to smoke pot because of 9/11. Plus, he admitted he’s on xanax, which is being abused almost as much as opiates are these days. Something drug-related is going on here.

i think he is using it as a cover for his eating disorder. i feel terrible for him.

I am a nurse. I have cared for a few people who had hiatal.hernias who were also young. All but one was also obese. I am not sure that this all tracks.

As someone who spent a lot of years working with people in this IQ range...I don’t know. We don’t really have enough information here. It’s hard for me to believe the state would take these children just because of their IQs. There could very well be other circumstances here that we’re not aware of. I have certainly…

 Not necessarily a danger, but unfit. And yes that is a valid reason for removal from the home. My wife is a social worker, I’m a therapeutic mentor we’ve both worked with mentally handicapped parents as well as as abusive ones. In both situations there are salvageable cases as well utterly ruinous ones.

My friends are foster parents and recently adopted a 5 1/2 year old whom they first got when she was about 3 1/2. The child’s biological mother is lower IQ and I have to say that the little girl is probably better off in this case. When she came to them, she was behind in things like language, motor, and social…

I read the longer article in the local paper and they self report as having taken every single training suggested and more. I admit to skimming this blog. Shew as raising her older children-twins-when she lost custody of her first infant. That said, she was living with her father, her father had been caregiver to the…

According to this article, this is her 4th child and third pregnancy.

This is a hard situation. I’m an attorney and volunteer as a guardian ad litem and I’ve seen these sorts of cases go a lot of different ways. I’ve seen mentally handicapped individuals who make great parents and are able to do fine with just the occasional check-in from a state agency. But I’ve also seen kids injured…

Ziegler’s IQ is 66, and Fabbrini’s is 72

No offense but unless we have the details of the case, we have no idea what occurred or why. Parents always run to the media and they are very often telling us what we want to hear. In the UK where I am, one family put up such a stink that they actually managed to sue and win an apology against the social workers…

“... the experimental nucleoside treatment that has had some results with children who suffer from Charlie’s condition”