Anya ,'Touched'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
A big smooch to you, Tep. Thanks for the virtual fist-bump.
if a ward of the state can't be accomodated (often teenagers)they get sent to juvenile detention until a spot can be found. So if you're a homeless kid you get sent to jail. Very very Oliver Twist work house, you know?
Isn't it ironic that knee-jerk, fear-based reactions to things tend to actually create more of what we say we don't want?
Somehow, my boss has an impression that I am a detailed oriented person that can track changes being made to templates on the fly and whether those changes are ad hoc, or should be global. I am not that person. And going back and realizing you've judge one dept. on one standard, and meanwhile changed the standard for another dept. is crazymaking.
I've been reading about the Nebraska law and the consequences. It occurs to me that the people who are dropping off their older kids are parents who care, but can't cope. A story in Sunday's paper mentioned one mother who brought her kid, all his medications (which implies some significant problems), and stayed to make sure he was comfortable and would be taken care of.
What's scary are the people who don't care enough to make any kind of effort, even of leaving their kids someplace they'll be taken care of.
And, in NJ when I was growing up, girls who were handed over the the state (PINS - persons in need of supervision) were dumped into the state mental asylum.
I am so sorry about your cousin, Matt.
Matt, I'm so sorry.
Oh, and don't think I didn't see what you did there, mister!
I'm trying to save you from a fate worse than Brezhnev!
So sorry to hear, Matt.
I'm so sorry Matt.
Oh, Matt. I'm so sorry. Peace for all of them.
Peace to you and yours, Matt.