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Anonymous:
Well good for you that you can help your kids. Not all kids respond the same. Some kids need tough love. No one is telling anyone how to raise their kids. You have the coice to keep yours at home, or seek other help. It is your choice. However, it is also the choice of each parent. It would appear the only one trying to tell another parent how to raise their child is the adoptive parent of the girl's brother. Some parents, on the other hand, need help and are not willing to admit they need help. It takes a strong and corageous parent to admit they need help, and then to act on it and seek the help. The girl is so fortunate to have a parent that loves her enough and is a big enough person to admit she needs help for her daughter, and is getting the help she needs.
It would appear that everyone who has jumped on this hostile negative bandwagon are the ones trying to tell the girl's mother how to raise her child. It is obvious, from your defensive hostility, that you would be very upset/offended if someone told you what you were doing with your child was wrong, and actually tried to go to court to have your child removed.
Think about it. You've made it clear that you don't want others telling you what to do with your child/ren, yet you've jumped on her bandwagon and are supportive of how she is dealing with her daughter?
I think the word you used was "hypocrite" Yes, it does fit well.
Antigen:
Yeah, well most of us have been in this girl's shoes. You? And, btw, the people defending removal of this girl have been ALA and her parents. Past tense. She has already been removed; apparently against her will at 4AM.
I am married, not Buried !
-- Steve Webb
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Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2004-04-10 19:53:00, Antigen wrote:
"Yeah, well most of us have been in this girl's shoes. You? And, btw, the people defending removal of this girl have been ALA and her parents. Past tense. She has already been removed; apparently against her will at 4AM.
I am married, not Buried !
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Interesting you use the word "apparently" as it indicates you do not have the full story. Do you know why she was put there in the first place? Have you never forced your child to do something they didn't want to do? If you child has a broken leg and doesn't want to go to the doctors, are you not going to go because the child doesn't want to? Of course not. As a parent, because you love your child, you will force your child to do many things, for their best interest. It is truly sad that so many have jumped on the bandwagon to undermine the parental authority. I have not seen anywhere where the parents are being accused of starving her, beating her, forcing her to sleep on a concrete floor, not providing clothes, or not providing basic toiletries. What I have seen is a conflict in the parenting styles of the mother and another woman who is not the mother. That is the bottom line.
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2004-04-10 12:28:00, Antigen wrote:
That's not what's going on at ALA. At ALA, the "students" are not allowed to send or receive mail from ANYBODY except their parents, and even that is a "priviledge" they have to earn.
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This is absolutely not true. I know of a student there who is receiving email from the several youth pastors at her church, as well as various family members and friends. So, where ever this notion came from that there is no communication, it is not true.
It would appear that the other woman is obsessed with the girl. Ginger, you have a daughter. How would you respond to someone being obsessed with your daughter? How about someone openly critisizing your parenting skills to the whole world on the web? It would appear that the other "adult" has really brought alot of problems on herself.
Ginger, if someone were attacking you and threatening you, would you be real inclined to allow that person to be around your daughter?
Sounds to me like the mother has her instincts in order. The other woman appears to be very unstable.
Have a blessed day Ginger.
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---This is absolutely not true. I know of a student there who is receiving email from the several youth pastors at her church, as well as various family members and friends. So, where ever this notion came from that there is no communication, it is not true.
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That sounds very cultish to me. The kids are being "brainwashed" to accept Christ. Forced beleif. If one is being held captive and only allowed to speak with those who share the ideas and philosophys of the group, insn't what cult behavior?
ALA sounds like a cult to me.
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