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Law that really don't protect anyone
Dec. 2nd, 2011 01:27 amNow THIS has me completely stymied: You can't get a kid arrested or committed unless they hurt themselves or someone else with a weapon. Even if the kid is under 13, is a frequent runaway, sexually active, and got herself infected with a serious STD. She may be smoking pot and doing goddess knows what else.
Just what laws protect the rights of the PARENTS? My goddaughter is running roughshod all over her father. He can't sleep a night through because he has to listen to see if she runs away to be with her boyfriend. He has to endure getting hit and sworn at a blue streak. She needs antidepressants badly, and she needs to be evaluated in an inpatient environment to see if she is exhibiting signs of any of the other mental illnesses her mother has.
Her school said he can't come around for a week, because he went to pick her up from school, she tried to run, and he grabbed the hood of her sweater to stop her. Didn't hit her, just grabbed the first thing he could when she started to run.
She runs, he calls the cops, sends them to the boyfriend's house. She runs out the back door, but not before the cops are inside and can smell pot. She waits, and runs back at the first opportunity, but the cops won't lock her in juvenile detention.
Just HOW do these laws serve both parents and children when the child is a demonstrable delinquent and refuses to respond to outpatient help?
WHY does she have to use a weapon to harm someone or herself and, if she does, what if someone dies? WHY does it HAVE to go that far?
Wisconsin. Brown County. Land of the Republicans, site of a recall election on their worst governor in history.
I can't believe this. The girl needs help NOW and from all looks of it she will have to be locked up to get it. But she has to try to kill someone (or herself) before they'll do anything of consequence.
Just what laws protect the rights of the PARENTS? My goddaughter is running roughshod all over her father. He can't sleep a night through because he has to listen to see if she runs away to be with her boyfriend. He has to endure getting hit and sworn at a blue streak. She needs antidepressants badly, and she needs to be evaluated in an inpatient environment to see if she is exhibiting signs of any of the other mental illnesses her mother has.
Her school said he can't come around for a week, because he went to pick her up from school, she tried to run, and he grabbed the hood of her sweater to stop her. Didn't hit her, just grabbed the first thing he could when she started to run.
She runs, he calls the cops, sends them to the boyfriend's house. She runs out the back door, but not before the cops are inside and can smell pot. She waits, and runs back at the first opportunity, but the cops won't lock her in juvenile detention.
Just HOW do these laws serve both parents and children when the child is a demonstrable delinquent and refuses to respond to outpatient help?
WHY does she have to use a weapon to harm someone or herself and, if she does, what if someone dies? WHY does it HAVE to go that far?
Wisconsin. Brown County. Land of the Republicans, site of a recall election on their worst governor in history.
I can't believe this. The girl needs help NOW and from all looks of it she will have to be locked up to get it. But she has to try to kill someone (or herself) before they'll do anything of consequence.
