Joshua Tree poverty family
Mar 8th 2018, 10:58 am
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Joshua Tree poverty family
Interesting piece in the Guardian today:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-abuse-poverty
Possibly guilty of being untidy! If their desert home was put together in more twee way, I wonder if there would quite as much concern from the authorities. Nevertheless, it does raise interesting questions on how far the state should involve itself in child development. Probably not as much as it wants to!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-abuse-poverty
Possibly guilty of being untidy! If their desert home was put together in more twee way, I wonder if there would quite as much concern from the authorities. Nevertheless, it does raise interesting questions on how far the state should involve itself in child development. Probably not as much as it wants to!
Mar 8th 2018, 11:01 am
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Re: Joshua Tree poverty family
I have that to check out later. After I get back from a shopping trip to beat the storm.
Mar 8th 2018, 1:36 pm
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Re: Joshua Tree poverty family
Interesting piece in the Guardian today:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-abuse-poverty
Possibly guilty of being untidy! If their desert home was put together in more twee way, I wonder if there would quite as much concern from the authorities. Nevertheless, it does raise interesting questions on how far the state should involve itself in child development. Probably not as much as it wants to!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-abuse-poverty
Possibly guilty of being untidy! If their desert home was put together in more twee way, I wonder if there would quite as much concern from the authorities. Nevertheless, it does raise interesting questions on how far the state should involve itself in child development. Probably not as much as it wants to!
Mar 8th 2018, 1:46 pm
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Re: Joshua Tree poverty family
I have to say this makes me think of other cases where nutters (to use the medical term) deny their kids blood transfusions or damage (even cause death of) their kids by only feeding them fruit and other similar cases that make the news.
Mar 8th 2018, 5:14 pm
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Re: Joshua Tree poverty family
Mar 8th 2018, 5:22 pm
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Re: Joshua Tree poverty family
Seems to be a bit more to this then just being a bit dirty, there were also human feces around, and doesn't sound very sanitary.
Granted if it was a safe place and they were just poor and lacked funds for food, that should not be criminal as there are a lot of children in the US and Canada who don't get enough food because their parents are poor and have insufficient funds.
In the US though with no income, well they should at least have gone to get food stamps, one upside to US social services is they actually provide a method for poor to obtain food.
Have to wait and see how this unfolds in court.
Granted if it was a safe place and they were just poor and lacked funds for food, that should not be criminal as there are a lot of children in the US and Canada who don't get enough food because their parents are poor and have insufficient funds.
In the US though with no income, well they should at least have gone to get food stamps, one upside to US social services is they actually provide a method for poor to obtain food.
Have to wait and see how this unfolds in court.
Mar 8th 2018, 8:03 pm
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Re: Joshua Tree poverty family
Is this the family where the husband lived in a trailer and the wife and kids in a large plywood box/shack with no windows ?
Mar 8th 2018, 9:39 pm
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Re: Joshua Tree poverty family
Seems to be a bit more to this then just being a bit dirty, there were also human feces around, and doesn't sound very sanitary.
Granted if it was a safe place and they were just poor and lacked funds for food, that should not be criminal as there are a lot of children in the US and Canada who don't get enough food because their parents are poor and have insufficient funds.
In the US though with no income, well they should at least have gone to get food stamps, one upside to US social services is they actually provide a method for poor to obtain food.
Have to wait and see how this unfolds in court.
Granted if it was a safe place and they were just poor and lacked funds for food, that should not be criminal as there are a lot of children in the US and Canada who don't get enough food because their parents are poor and have insufficient funds.
In the US though with no income, well they should at least have gone to get food stamps, one upside to US social services is they actually provide a method for poor to obtain food.
Have to wait and see how this unfolds in court.
