I have HAD IT up to HERE with the health/mental health/court system in this country!!!
I am so tired of bending over backwards to follow rules and meet standards and adhere to requirements and dot all the i's and cross all the t's - only to find that some jerk who did NOT follow the rules and did NOT do the right thing and who made absolutely NO EFFORT to take care of themselves or their children is getting yet ANOTHER break, yet ANOTHER chance, and yet ANOTHER opportunity to screw things up for the rest of us!
What is it going to take to get a little logic into the way we handle difficult children ?
When will the Powers that Be learn that a little pro-active intervention could go a long way toward solving some of these issues before it becomes a life-long pattern?
How long before it occurs to someone that the good folks that work hard and follow the rules could use a "break" once in a while, too?
Why is it so difficult to understand that families need help keeping safe and keeping difficult children under control?
Some of these difficult children don't HAVE to be difficult children! With therapy, with medications, with the right supports, with education - they could go one to lead "normal" lives.
We wouldn't have "revolving doors" on over-crowded prisons and homeless mental patients wandering the streets if we could design a plan to 'help people up' instead of just 'dropping them off'.
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[ In case you're wondering what set me off today? Get this: Mother of two heads off to prison on felony charges, drops the kids off at bio-dads with absolutely nothing - no clothes, no shoes, no nothing - yet bio-dad cannot get child-support payments stopped and will continue to have money deducted from his pay and deposited into Mom's account while she is in jail. Nice system. ]
I am so tired of bending over backwards to follow rules and meet standards and adhere to requirements and dot all the i's and cross all the t's - only to find that some jerk who did NOT follow the rules and did NOT do the right thing and who made absolutely NO EFFORT to take care of themselves or their children is getting yet ANOTHER break, yet ANOTHER chance, and yet ANOTHER opportunity to screw things up for the rest of us!
What is it going to take to get a little logic into the way we handle difficult children ?
When will the Powers that Be learn that a little pro-active intervention could go a long way toward solving some of these issues before it becomes a life-long pattern?
How long before it occurs to someone that the good folks that work hard and follow the rules could use a "break" once in a while, too?
Why is it so difficult to understand that families need help keeping safe and keeping difficult children under control?
Some of these difficult children don't HAVE to be difficult children! With therapy, with medications, with the right supports, with education - they could go one to lead "normal" lives.
We wouldn't have "revolving doors" on over-crowded prisons and homeless mental patients wandering the streets if we could design a plan to 'help people up' instead of just 'dropping them off'.
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[ In case you're wondering what set me off today? Get this: Mother of two heads off to prison on felony charges, drops the kids off at bio-dads with absolutely nothing - no clothes, no shoes, no nothing - yet bio-dad cannot get child-support payments stopped and will continue to have money deducted from his pay and deposited into Mom's account while she is in jail. Nice system. ]