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- From: mitchell@cs.uchicago.edu (Mitchell Marks)
- Subject: Update on "home alone" kids in Chicago [Re: Parallel situations]
- In-Reply-To: jay@UUSERV.CC.UTAH.EDU's message of Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:02:59 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:52:43 GMT
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- >>>>> "JD" == Jay Deuel <jay@UUSERV.CC.UTAH.EDU> writes:
-
- JD> P.S. How about the Chicago couple that left their kids "home
- JD> alone"?
-
- They got home yesterday or today (I'm writing on Wednesday, 30 Dec),
- and were immediately arrested. They were charged with child neglect,
- child endangerment, and a third count that I can't remember.
-
- The children were first placed with a grandmother, but now have been
- moved into a foster home. The early news stories said that the
- grandmother declared that she found she couldn't take care of them,
- but now make it sound more as though DCFS just decided to take them
- away.
-
- As far as I've heard, the parents have not made any statement.
-
-
- [Allcaps warning.] Usenet is after all supposedly "news", so I
- answered with some news even though JD's question seemed to be
- directed elsewhere. But I can't address whatever point he was making
- with this example, since I just flash unread through articles on the
- POINTLESS, ADSURD, MISGUIDED topics of men's supposed "rights" vis a
- vis abortion, and the INFURIATINGLY ILLOGICAL and basically MISOGYNIST
- arguments about it based on views about child support.
-
- This is not meant as a personal attack on JD, who for all I know was
- trying to provide reasonable answers. But it is meant as a
- generalized attack on the whole thread.
-
- -mm
- --
- Mitch Marks mitchell@cs.uchicago.edu
- "Oh God comma I abhor self-consciousness" --John Barth
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