riding crop case update - the State tells you how to parent your own child
Many of you will be aware that I have blogged the case of a woman who was acquitted in court after she disciplined her son with a riding crop. Her son is in the care of CYFS who have drugged him up on risperdal to control his behaviour.
Child Youth and Family has now given the family a plan that will be monitored by the social worker. The plan instructs that no physical discipline is to be used by the caregivers or the parents. The family also has to attend a parenting course to teach them how to discipline their child without smacking, even though the parents have not broken any laws in disciplining her children..
This is state -forced parenting by stealth. It is OK to drug a kid up but not even his own parents are allowed to physically discipline him within the law.
The state clearly considers it illegal or wrong to use reasonable force when disciplining a child despite the current provisions in the law. Remember this family has been acquitted in court, but has to go through this whole process purely because a Government Agency has its own view and is thumbing its nose at any court decision it disagrees with.
This is the same agency that is trying to prevent another case appearing on Close -Up. This case is one where a CYFS caregiver whacked a child over the head, kicked her when she was on the ground and .the child was repeatedly whacked, abused and beaten. This isafter the courts said that the child should be returned to the care of her mother.
You can read all about that case here and here
It's appalling.
2 comments:
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Dave, have a look at this.
Hang,I would've thought that the girl was uplifted because someone else was the criminal endangering her life, but, from reading this, it makes her the criminal. This is nuts! From what I've been reading lately it doesn't surprise me though. In fact I know of a Christian couple who had their son 'abducted' by CYFS over diciplinary issues such as in 'the riding crop case'. The father refused to budge with CYFS and so they lost the boy. They also demand that parents split up before returning children and then never quite return them. I know of another case, though not involving Christians, where the kids were removed on a spurious allegation against the father. We knew the family and knew it wasn't right. After the kids ended up in care, the oldest boy lost his big toe in the carers lawn mower. His father just never would have let that happen. TO look at that family may not have seemed like your picture-book pretty family, but hey, they loved their kids. I think CYFS just didn't like the look of them to be honest. Disgusting attitude eh? Considering how they keep spouting on about tolerance in these trendy lefy organs of power.
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