Why Are Parents The Blame!

An exchange of views between CBC News reader and I.

Labgirl: Your opinion is your own, but by what research do you base your ignorant statement? “But its sickins me to see parents just handing over there kids to the courts because they raised them to be the way they are ,”

I will not subtract from your belief, but I “know” parents do not just give away their children because of the way they raised them! I take many exceptions to this thought, simply because parents are genuinely forced to raise kids to be “BRATS”. This is not unique to Newfoundland & Labrador.

T.V Networks have made millions on exploiting family break-ups, child meltdowns, etc. with reality shows like Nanny911, Brat Camp, and School Yards of America… The list goes on.

A local St. John’s school cited that 25-30% of their 450 student body population in year 2007 were diagnosed with ADD/ADHD/ODD/CD and other such psychological disorders. This sends a bad message to the community.

Children with these said disorders are generally characterized with being the “Bad Apples” of society. The sad reality Labgirl, if a closer study was undertaken we would find that 80% of those kids diagnosed are wrongfully diagnosed.

The school and child protection acts are the real perpetrators in the big picture, not parents. Parents are not allowed to raise children today, children raise parents. Where is the line drawn, where do we begin to accept that a teachers misusing her authority to report parents for abusing their kid, because that kid lied in a story of abuse, is the right first response?

Recently, a young family was put under watch by CYFS because their family doctor felt confining their seven year old child to its room for fifteen minutes after demonstrating very negative behaviour was wrongful punishment. The sad reality Labgirl, CYFS now has an active file open on this couple because they did what you would call good parenting.


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