Posted on 10/16/2009 12:41:51 PM PDT by coon2000
As the homemade balloon took to the air, Richard Heene blasts wife about tethering. • While world worried, 'balloon boy' was safe in attic http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7e7_1255709203
“I’d also want to see social services look into what they are subjecting those kids to!”
You aren’t very conservative when it comes to individual rights are you? CPS needs to stay out of peoples lives unless there are signs of physical or sexual abuse. You don’t have a right to tell the Heenes how to raise their kids and social services has no right to investigate them. If the parents did something illegal in all of this, let the police handle it.
he’s definitely on something most of the time.
Eggzachary. Thanks.
Emotional and psychological abuse are just as bad as physical abuse.
These parents are over the line. At the very least, they need some supervision and some parenting classes.
Narcissists often abuse their children emotionally.
I feel sorry for these three little guys.
i do too... i saw this family on Wife Swap earlier this week... yesterday i mentioned something about these "poor kids," and someone basically told me not to judge them just because i choose not to enjoy interesting things in life! i think the more that these parents show themselves, especially the father, the more people will see that they are truly self-centered...
” CPS needs to stay out of peoples lives unless there are signs of physical or sexual abuse.”
The kids rap video is proof of abuse. :-)
Do these folks work at all.
If you haven’t figured it out by now Hannity is not the brightest bulb in the box. He parrots talking points ad nauseum and rarely offers any serious thought to any discussion.
Now with that being said, seeing the balloon in size context from this “launch video”, its hard to believe this thing was going to lift a 6 year old child off the ground, let alone reach several thousand feet with it.
However, had I launched this balloon and then couldn’t find my youngest, I think I’d be a bit panicy and second guess that assumption.
And with that being said, I think this whole thing was a hoax, period.
I feel sorry for them too but being a bad parent is no reason to call CPS.
If a child’s life isn’t in danger, CPS needs to stay out of the mix.
You want CPS to investigate every family who may be emotionally abusing their kids?
What about when they tell us that teaching our children that abortion is wrong is emotionally abusing them.
Who makes that judgement? You, me, liberals, NAMBLA?
How about respecting people’s rights to privacy and raising their children how they see fit.
I saw the video. It definitely shows bad parenting. The definiton of abuse is to misuse. Children definitely shouldn’t be used to draw attention to parents or to make some political statement.
Alot of kids are abused in some ways (ie the parents use them in ways they shouldn’t). Putting them in pageants that they hate so mommy can relive her glory days, pressure them into a college, make them solely responsible for their siblings, teach them to cuss and burp because they think it is funny, buy them stuff instead of loving them. ALL OF THAT IS ABUSE as defined by the dictionary.
The problem is that CPS should investigate PHYSICAL and SEXUAL abuse. I don’t want to be investigated because someone doesn’t like the way I am raising my kids and I don’t want others investigated for the same reason. CPS is dangerous. They have ALOT of authority that is regularly abused. They have NO accountability. They can take your kids on a whim. If a parent has done something against the law, let the police deal with it. If they haven’t LEAVE THE PARENTS AND THE KIDS ALONE.
I would tend to argue that it might be a worthwhile exercise of the rescue system. It is advantagous to know if your rescue system is any good. It normally gets tested in rare real emergencies.
This family is cuckoo! cuckoo!
huh.
You talking about that Obama rap video? lol!
He’s cussing the kid out because he let go if the tether, like a kid that age is responsible enough to do that.
I’d like to slap that pud head into the next time zone.
Yeah, I didn’t see a whole lot of lift going on there. Try releasing a party balloon and watch how quickly it rises.
These children seem to be ‘home’ schooled by a couple of whacks. Feel sorry for them. Yup I do
Exactly! If they are making the kids go along with a lie for self promotion that is emotional abuse. You have a right to raise your kids any way you want but you do not have a rght to abuse them ever.
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