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- From: dwells@lonestar.utsa.edu (Darren . Wells)
- Subject: Re: Set the WayBack Machine (Coming Out)
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:35:00 GMT
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- In article <16B5310333.SILVERI@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- SILVERI@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Silver Tiger) writes:
- >In article <C0ozDE.FCo@world.std.com>
- >smoir@world.std.com (Scott A Moir) writes:
- >>
- >>Deanne has a child
- >>from a previous marriage, and the issues of organizations like the
- >>Massachusetts Department of Social Services (DSS) poking thier nose in
- >>have come up as well. (The DSS can come in and take her son, if they feel
- >>that he is in an unhealthy environment. They can do that to -anyone- in
- >>Mass.. wonderful, isn't it?)
- >
- >Is there any state where they can't?
-
- In Texas it seems to go too far in the opposite direction. Here they
- have the ability to go in and take your children, but you practically
- have to be hanging them from a tree in the front yard and selling
- tickets to the beatings before they can, and the kids usually end up
- going back to their abusive parents within a couple of days. It's
- tough to imagine wording the laws to where the state can go into a
- home and rescue children from an abusive/dangerous environment without
- also allowing the state to get carried away, like the CAS. I guess
- the most important element is the people in the agencies - their
- definition of "unhealthy environment" seems to be the key factor.
-
- (BTW, I got the info on how Texas does things from a friend of mine
- who works for the Department of Human Services here. The stories she
- has told me . . . )
-
- Darren
- (throwing in his relatively fluff-free $.02)
-