petition for bill to End Institutionalized Child Abuse

[katfish]

376 signatures so far- pretty good I think.  If anyone can help spread the word to friends and family I think we can top 400 before it goes out.    
Also, if anyone- parents, health advocates or professional want to sign on to this letter created by Allison Pinto, PhD. we can really slam 'em.  The movement is growing, even CWLA, APA, and others are on board.

http://www.unmarriedamerica.org/emancip ... letter.htm

[Anonymous]

There are some excellent comments. When will this petition be presented to the board?

[Anonymous]

I've seen some excellent comments. When will this petition be presented to the board?

[Deprogrammed]

I wish I knew!

If anyone has information on when this petition will go before the board please post a comment stating so.

Ty
regards,
-DP :cool:

Revelation indeed had no weight with me.
--Benjamin Franklin, American Founding Father, author, and inventor

[katfish]

Hello all,

Truthfully, I'm not sure.  Trying to figure out ways to maximize impact, hopefully getting the mental health professional sign-on, as well as the parent sign on letter to be included- see links below for contact info on where to sign on if your a parent or work in the mental health field (and spread the word if you know of any.) (Note: the date presently on the site is not accurate and needs to be updated- Allison Pinto has set the deadline to September 9th to sign on)

http://www.unmarriedamerica.org/emancip ... letter.htm
http://www.unmarriedamerica.org/emancip ... letter.htm
   


kat

ps.- i know everyone's tired of hearing this, but please spread the word. It would so great to hit 500, or higher!

[Anonymous]

what comments have you seen?  where?

[Deprogrammed]

Thanks for the update, Kat, please let us know as soon as ye have official word on the fed. petition especially.

I will continue to inspire ye, Kat and spread the word. :smile:
regards,
:cool:- DP

"One commentator pointed out that when the mafia commits violence, no
one suggests we bomb Sicily.  Today it seems we are, in a symbolic way, not only bombing "Sicily," but are thinking about bombing "Athens" (Iraq)."

http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2001/cr112901.htm' target='_new'>Ron Paul, 11/29/01 Speech before Congress

[ This Message was edited by: Deprogrammed on 2005-08-20 19:04 ]

[Deprogrammed]

Update:

Fed Bill Hr 1738 Petition: 391 currently

Kids Helping Kids Petition: 107 currently

HHS Child Protective Services Petition: 2,274 currently
 :cool: -DP

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
--Thomas Paine

[katfish]

[ This Message was edited by: katfish on 2005-08-21 20:50 ]

[nite owl]

I sent a note out to all on my e-mail list asking them to take time to consider signing this petition - and had great responce. Just a short and simple note can help spread the word.

Faith is believing something you know ain't true.
--Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain", American author and humorist

[Anonymous]

Since the preventable death of my daughter, Michelle Lynn Sutton, in a so-called Wilderness Therapy Facility, I have hoped and prayed for a law that would govern this lucrative, out of control industry. There are two fatal flaws, that cannot be regulated. The "window of loss" mentality that says of the death of each child, "we lost ONE, but we are saving many," and the Hitlarian mentality about these kids that continues to claim their young lives. These two fatal flaws must be weeded out of the industry by improving the quality of care within the industry, while seeing to it that a level of expectation is in place and enforced. I have often said that I as a parent could not have done TO my daughter what was done TO her and walked away a free person. How is it that this industry can? Sincerely, Michelle Sutton Memorial Fund, Inc. Catherine Sutton Colusa, California

[Deprogrammed]

Powerful testimonial right there!
warm regards,
-DP

Drug War tells us everyone's body is common property
to be managed by the central government for our own
good, even if it kills us.  This is Communism!
Drug Policy Foundation of Texas

--Bob Ramsey

[Antigen]

Cathryn, I think you probably had no idea what these people were planning to do to your daughter. And it's tragic beyond words how this story plays out again and again.

I don't oppose regulatory or legislative efforts to do something about the problem, but I don't have much faith in them either. At the bottom of it, this industry sells the parents on some sort of mystical, magical, God in a bottle cure for teen angst and credulous, insecure parents are buying it. One side of the marketing has to do w/ hysterical fear mongering over what is really very often just plain old growing pains.

The other side is hysterical fear mongering over our perceived inability, as families and communities, to raise our young. That concept alone bears much scrutiny. If you stop and think about it for a moment, it's patently rediculous to think that, after all these thousands of years, our species and our cultures suddenly need some sort of expert help in raising young. What?! Ok, even if I give that the benefit of the doubt for the sake of discussion, just exactly what is this new-fangled, expert method?

If more people would ask those simple questions, not buy a pig in a poke, as it were, rather than making the tragic and misguided assumption that Big Brother in the form of some regulatory agency is looking out for us, that would go a long way toward tanking the market for these scheisters.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its
best state is but a necessary evil ---in its worst state an
intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same
miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without
government, our calamities is heightened by reflecting that we
furnish the means by which we suffer!


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679433147/circlofmiamithem' target='_new'>Thomas Paine, Common Sense

[Anonymous]

Fed HR 1738 petition: 476 currently signed

[Anonymous]

481 - slow but sure. When will you turn this petition in? Any news on this bill? Haven't heard anything for awhile.