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CHILD_ABUSE_ISSUES
Moderator: Rick Thoma
Origin: FIDONET 1:271/124
Scope and Purpose: The Child Abuse Issues conference is intended to
provide a forum for the open exchange of ideas and of opinions. The
conference is open to parents, educators, legal and law enforcement
professionals, social workers, individuals involved in related fields
of research, advocacy and support groups, as well as other interested
individuals. It is the sincere hope of the moderator that we shall all
draw benefit from the open and honest exchange of information.
While any reasonable individual would certainly agree that child abuse
and neglect are fundamentally wrong, the issues surrounding abuse and
neglect are often more complicated than they may appear. Reasonable
efforts extended toward the detection or prevention of genuine cases of
abuse or neglect are laudable, yet some maintain the implementation of
programs designed to protect children have often been demonstrated to
lend themselves to administrative abuses.
Questions have recently arisen as to whether the models and methods
employed by those entrusted with the task of detecting or preventing
abuse are, in all instances, to be relied upon as accurate indicators.
Open and honest discussion of these issues, offered herein by way of
example, would be well within the scope of this conference.
Issues of more immediate concern to parents might be signs or symptoms
to look for, suggestive of abuse in instances of shared custody, or in
the school or daycare center. How a parent may become better prepared
to distinguish between actual, imagined, or maliciously alleged abuse
would also be included as among relevant topics for discussion.
CONFERENCE GUIDELINES:
[1] Your moderator desires to babysit no individual other than his
own child. The issues of child abuse and neglect may, at times,
be emotionally difficult, particularly for those participants
whose lives have been touched by it in some manner or another.
Keeping this in mind ought help maintain the spirit and intent
of rule number one, best summarized as: MAINTAIN AS CIVIL YOUR
DISCUSSIONS.
[2] Free speech advocate though your moderator may be, this is a
forum likely to be shared by people of diverse backgrounds. In
the interest of preserving the peace, please watch your language.
Your host may use as a reference the "Seven Words You Can't Say
on TV", as defined by George Carlin, but reserves the right to
extend this definition.
[3] No personal attacks. Differences of opinion are bound to arise
from time to time. Respect the rights of others to hold their
opinions, no matter how erroneous they may to you appear. Take
to thoughtful debate any difference of opinion -- take to NetMail
any thoughtless flame.
[4] Please use your real name. No one wants to talk to someone
identified only, by way of example, as "Binkey". If the system
you are on allows handles during log-on, but lacks provision for
the use of your real name while composing messages, please sign
your message.
[5] English is the official language of this echo. This is not meant
by any means to exclude anyone, it is simply a reflection of the
fact that your moderator, while he speaks three languages with
varying degrees of proficiency, is currently equipped to moderate
only one language in conferenced print.
[6] Please post in straight ASCII text. No colorful ANSI or 8 bit
ASCII entries, as they tend to make messages less than legible on
non IBM compatible systems.
[7] No advertising. Referrals in reply to specific questions are
fine, but no posted ads for commercial enterprises are tolerated.
This same restriction is applied to all BBS ads, though a brief
notice that a BBS has linked to this conference is to be welcomed.
[8] Some common rules of courtesy also include an effort to limit the
excessive quoting of messages in reply, restriction entirely of
the posting of "test" messages, the encryption of messages, and
the posting of files by way of attach or uuencoding.
[9] Leave to the moderator the determination as to whether or not a
particular topic is within the realm of this conference. Allow
him, also, to address the clearly off topic messages sure to
enter the conference from time to time.
[10] This conference may not be ported to any Network to which FIDONET
Backbone Conference Mail is not normally so ported without the
express permission of the moderator first obtained. Messages may
be cross-posted into other conferences, so long as they are
within the realm of related interest as defined by the target
conference moderator.