Gothamist: Child's Brutal Death Spurs More Talk of Reform

ANGRYGOD11

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:10:50 -0500

I'm still wondering how the mother could have turned over her child to a woman who lost all her children in Texas because she abused them. How could she not know about that, yet select her as the godmother? I'm also wondering how the father could just go to court to get his kid without a lawyer? There are some services for people in his situation. There is a lot more to this story, but I'll have to wait years until the civil cases explains things a little better.

ANGRYGOD11

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:00:49 -0500

#5 Foster care isn't the same as adoption. You can care for a baby until he/she is an adult and never let a chance to adopt. There are too many cases of children in loving foster homes who could not get adopted by the very willing because the rights of the scumbag biological parent have to be taken into account.

whantmoore

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:48:06 -0500

I agree not every should have kids. But the funny thing is there are so many people here in the states that want to adopt but the red tape that is supposed to protect the kids does not. So couples end up going to China to adopt while American kids end up on foster care suffering.

Dave Hogarty

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:12:05 -0500

I am generally against federalizing things and doing anything "for the children." In lieu of licensing parenthood,--e.g. fascist states--however, one can acknowledge 'the system' is broken. The U.S. has a mobile population. One can pull up stakes and move to another state in a day. There is no reason to allow that freedom to accommodate child abusers. I don't know about national databases, but the easier cross-referencing of state databases and criminal background checks seems like a good idea. Kyle Smith's fate was practically written on a billboard, but that billboard was facing a brick wall in an alley that no one ever walked down.

rtd2101

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:43:49 -0500

talk talk talk talk. that's all they ever do is "talk about reform".

Anna_Merkin

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:00:37 -0500

It's hard to believe that there are still anti-abortion activists. (Get ready for all of the bigots to flail away at the comments.) Clearly, not everyone who is capable of having children SHOULD have children.

thefacts

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:58:34 -0500

Get prepared for the politically correctoids to flail away at the comments.