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Originally Posted by enkeivette
I disagree with this completely. We absolutely should have laws in place to protect children from their indigent parents. What about a Dad who drops his daughter off in Tijuana for the night to teach her a lesson? And she then gets raped. Really, the Dad didn't do anything actively harmful to her, the Mexican rapist did. You're suggesting there should be no legal recourse against his recklessness?
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Uh, care to explain to me how these constitute protecting people from themselves? Sounds a lot like fairly clearly protecting one from another in some pretty clear cases doesn't it?
Actually, protecting in the first case, and punishing in the second. The latter is a bit easier to come down on the side against the negligent (and moronic) hypothetical father. Now for a real example, how about a parent who refuses medical treatment for their children based on religious convictions. How about recent cases of optiing out of vaccination? Not easy is it?
BTW, CPS is filled with absolute fuc*king horror stories of taking a child from a non-perfect home and putting them in homes where they get killed. Hot damn! I'd call that a negative consequence.