Foster parent for five years. I have seen both good and struggling parents separated from their children. The system though abuses the hell out of foster parents, including pressing completely unfounded accusations based on no more than hearsay, and requiring foster parents to protect themselves in a court of law or be placed on black lists, or even registries. I understand the need to protect the children, but when a foster parent doesn't even have the ability to speak in a court of law in their own defense or in the defense of the child (as they are not legally a party to the case in most states despite being the primary guardian), then you know things are royally screwed up.
Across the entire union, 10k - 12k children disappear from the system annually. There are an estimated 120k children being human trafficked in the US at any given point. If you consider children 'aging out' of human trafficking and restrain the ages for human trafficking to 8 - 18 years old (which it is actually much younger), then it could reasonably be assumed that 10% age out, maybe another 10% are freed. At least half of the children being sexually trafficked in the US could be coming from the Foster Care system, with the other half being brought across the border.
The phrase is that equality is no longer desired, but equity. The push for equal outcome is the emphasis now over equal opportunity.
For most, our population is uninformed and unable to keep track of everything going on. We should leverage local government as it should be leveraged. When we vote in county reps, those should vote for state level officials and federal positions. No more than 2 tiers, but we should essentially elect those that have a full time job of assisting with the community and following political trends and voting. Their votes should also be made public.
Honestly? I was a foster parent for a very long time and am a child care professional. I saw really good parents have children removed from their homes for marks (due to other helicopter moms). I have also had children in my home that were indeed abused and had similar marks to this due to strangulation from adults in their lives. It sucks, and yes I'm much more protective than I would like to be. But I have also had to defend myself against false allegations and my documentation, video, and thoroughness have been a hard requirement in my life. Also, these are clearly not typical bumps or bruises for a three year old.
These are ok questions. You don't want to ask, "Who did this to you?" or "Did someone do this to you?". If this happened at the school, they should provide an incident report. Did they provide any information? Present this information to the leadership of the daycare and provide them with whatever information the 'teachers' provided you.
Was the child wearing a button down shirt in the front or a tighter tshirt? My initial reaction is that someone grabbed his collar while he was running or pulled. This should absolutely be reported and reviewed by a trained professional. Also, do not ask him any questions about this directly or 'lead' him in conversation. If he presents any information log it. Otherwise, details can potentially be thrown as non-credible out if you try to investigate yourself.
Absolutely police overstep. In my example, of the 5 that were killed, 4 of which were prosecuted (hopefully to the full extent of the law). I completely agree that police need to be held to a higher standard, and that abuse is wrong and needs to be prosecuted higher than a non-public servant. My point is more that it is not nearly the 'genocide' that is proclaimed by our media.
Don't be fooled by so many of the excessive force conversations though. last year only 10 unarmed black lives were taken by police officers, 5 of which were assaulting police officers. More people have died during the last week of protests. Is excessive force bad? Yes. It is also much less common, is not continuing to happen, and less destructive than what has happened in these riots.
BLM are the prisoners. The ones in charge is the deep state. They have provided them funding, organization, immunity, and approval. Trump is the first person to not kowtow to this terrorist organization. Look at Obama, BLM, and the police murders in Texas.
I think it ultimately came down to family for me. I value family and I value life and I felt that conservatives shared that. I am a foster mom and I started feeling like liberals were a threat to my foster children because it didn't matter how my kids were suffering, they seemed to side with bio parents. I also heard a lot of liberals using foster kids as a reason to justify abortion and it infuriated me because I felt they were saying my children don't deserve life and they would be better off dead. None of my children deserve that and they certainly don't feel that way. Changing direction a bit, feminists have really offended me in that they constantly try to make me feel like a victim because I choose to be a more traditional wife and mother. The point of feminism is to empower women yet they are hypocritical in that they are trying to shame me for my life choices to try to make me submissive to their agenda.
That is a lot of dedication for just a meme.
She will throw him under the bus in a heartbeat for political gain. I'm guessing a metoo kind of moment