[HPFGU-OTChatter] OT: Concert Etiquette

[Bumbledor]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laura Ingalls Huntley" <lhuntley at fandm.edu>


>
> > {Silverthorne}
> > All it takes nowadays is for a child to swear that it was 'abused' for
> > an
> > adult to end up on the 'wrong' side of the law. Even parents can be
> > penalized legally for giving their child a quick smack on the butt in
> > public
> > if someone else sees it, and decides that they're witnessing 'child
> > abuse'.
>
> Actually, what you've said is sort of an urban myth,

Myth my blooming arse! I saw a parent give a child a good swat in D&W store
and within 8 mins, cops were there intergating her and berating her.  And I
told the cops the kid was lucky he wasn't mine, cause it would have been 2
swats!

>  I know several people who work in therapy and child
> services and they say it is almost *impossible* to convict an adult of
> child abuse.

What State/County?  Maybe you are right - convicting of child abuse, but
long before that, around here, the state comes in and kidnaps the kids from
their parents, on mere ASSUMPTION that something may be going wrong. Ive
seen it happen too often.


>
> Again, maybe it's just because I live in Downeast Maine (admittedly,
> we're all kind of stuck about ten or twenty years in the past),
Ah, that explains why you seem to be comming from lala-land.
Nothing at all like the big cities of Detroit, L.A., Chicago, or NYC.

>but
> from I've been told,

What you have been told, and what is REALITY are two different things.
And the problem here, is that you have NO idea what reality is for those who
live in the bigger cities. Swat a kid there, and they can and sometimes do,
get taken
away right then and there.