Comments on: Coming Soon: “Best Interests?”

By: Toyota Kawaski

Toyota Kawaski — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:15:07 +0000

mentally that is

By: Toyota Kawaski

Toyota Kawaski — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:14:23 +0000

I like the metally-ill exotic dancer part that is great!

By: Charles

Charles — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:18:52 +0000

You guys amaze me. The party of small government is in favor of tighter government supervision of the rearing of children by their parents. Do you even understand the implications of increasing government involvement in how parents raise their children? Yes, some children slip through the cracks, but that is a cost we must occasionally pay if we do not want the government involved in the lives of every parent. We must have a strong presumption in favor of biological parents retaining and rearing their children free of government supervision.

This is a bad story, and there are many hundreds more, some worse. But acting emotionally in the face of bad facts makes bad law. The government cannot protect every child from abuse without supervision of every family. All and all governments have done a reasonable job of curbing abuse and neglect of children. The percentage of children suffering from abuse and neglect is significantly below where it was 50 years ago, when a parent could almost beat his child to death without government involvement.

By: Earl Capps

Earl Capps — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:24:39 +0000

Why look to Florida? If you’re looking for bad stories about inept social workers breaking up families and getting kids killed, SCDSS has plenty of stories for you to ponder. I’ve had more than a few things to say about it, and the best (or worst) is yet to come!

By: Todd

Todd — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:36:28 +0000

Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Sic. We have a battalion of social workers right here in South Carolina who stupidly believe that ALL children are best served being raised (abused) by their biological parents rather than being placed with families that can actually nurture a child. Florida does not have a lock on this exhaust-all-methods-to-keep-the-family-together idiocy. Our SC DSS may be – and is probably – a party to this stupid Florida move. Out of state, out of mind, off our payroll. This is going to be interesting. Thank you for posting this story.