Thanks for stepping up! I mentor refugee families from countries where severe abuse is the norm. Kids missing a week of school 'til the bruises on their face, black eyes, or lumps on the head start to fade. Kids being peppered (rubbing habanero broth or hot pepper powder in their faces or in the girls' privates). Locking young teenagers out in freezing weather without a coat for a week or so, and telling them to find their own place to sleep. I don't call CPS on them, I try and deal with it myself, but the schools, neighbors, or other people frequently do make the call. CPS visits the home, checks that there's food in the fridge, interviews the mom and the kids several times over a period of a few months, and then signs the case off as closed until the next complaint. There are not nearly enough foster homes to take the kids out of the situation. Some of the kids have grown up and gotten Masters' degrees and professional careers, some started their own businesses, one 14 y.o. is in 5 week detention for a school fight right now, a couple of the young men caught felonies and got deported. Most will pass the abuse on to their own kids. Only a few break the cycle.Come to think of it, that was the time.
Yeah, that crap can make you do some stuff. Sometimes you can catch it, and other times it just jumps the **** out!
Kind of like autopilot sometimes. Sometimes you just don't have a choice of fight or flight. It's chosen for you. That's when it can get bad. I guess it's now been like 13 years since I had my last physical Episode. It actually almost scared me, but it definitely surprised me. This guy standing outside the convenience store was about to hit a little child of the woman that he was panhandling with. I had him slammed up against the wall and about to snap his neck before I realized what I had done. I was pretty lucky that the cops were across the street watching everything going on. It was a little hairy when they rushed over, but they didn't draw their guns or anything. It was also good that one of the cops knew me. It was always pretty funny that that cop from that point on, always kind of kept his distance from me.
Mostly man and the woman with two little girls went to jail and the little girls went to the county under CPS. It wasn't no time before the woman was back out on the streets and the little girls were with her. I'll never ever be able to fathom how in the hell CPS does the stupid crap that they do.
Very respectable of you. I look up to you and your work.
I forgot Friday is your pizza day huh?And I'm guessing you've never had true authentic Mexican food, so compared to your bomb ass pizza I'm sure it all just sounds like taco bell to you.
I forgot Friday is your pizza day huh?And I'm guessing you've never had true authentic Mexican food, so compared to your bomb ass pizza I'm sure it all just sounds like taco bell to you.
Someone spotted @Son of Hobbes taking his weinermobile to the Donut Hole this morning
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