Difference being, prisoners have due process and have to be convicted of a crime before being incarcerated. Mental patients, in FL at least, can only be held against their will for 72 hours unless a qualified psychiatrist diagnoses them as an imminent danger to themselves or others. Kids in programs get the benefit of neither a conviction nor diagnosis before the parent is free to abdicate their responsibilities.
Once the child is of age then they get the benefit of the court system. This isn’t any one particular persons fault. It’s the way the majority of the people voted in this country. Once these kids turn 18 they can change the laws to allow kids to get legal representation at age 12 if they like. But we have all been 12 years old in our lifetime and the majority of us agree with the present law or we would have changed it a long time ago.
But at least we're getting a glimpse of how you view children. They have no rights and are comparable to convicted criminals and mental patients. Gotcha.
Exactly, no rights for children until they become old enough and kids in programs can be compared to convicted criminals and mental patients on the specific level I spoke of. For example if I told you that someone I knew was as
honest as Abe Lincoln it doesn’t mean he necessarily has a
beard and
stove top hat. If I said my neighbor had a
beard like Abe Lincoln it would necessarily mean he was
tall or
honest. So I am not comparing kids in programs to criminals and mental patients on
all levels.
I understand that many struggle with this connection here so I tend to repeat it for re-education and clarification purposes.
As an aside: I thinks its telling that you
still blame your father after all these years and at the same time blame the program for tearing families apart.
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