Children flee from abuse of mother and lesbian lover (pc media blackout)

Beacon Journal ^ | May. 06, 2003 | Andale Gross

[onehipdad]

I too have posted another article about this story, because I believe it deserves national attention - not because of the lesbian relationship as much as the apparent dereliction of responsibility of the local social services agencies who allowed the abuse to go on for so long.

It was particularly galling to me that the very next day after this story broke, there was a local state senator calling for an investigation into home schooling practices in Ohio. There was no home schooling going on, it was simply a way to effectively and efficiently carry on their abuse behind closed doors and I wouldn't be surprised to learn that latitude was given them due to the "non-traditional family" household.

This is criminal behavior, pure and simple, and the absent fathers as well as social services should be held accountable for enabling these beasts.

[DLfromthedesert]

How homophobic of the police to persecute this normal average loving couple!!!

[cynicom]

geeze..Do not recall the person before.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Perhaps the issue is clouded by sexual orientation... but, controversy may fuel a story's shelf life, with some people. I agree with you that the social services, as well as the parents bear the responsibility in this case. It does not matter if the mother was a homosexual. What matters is the danger that these children have been subjected to, what recourse the legal community has, and whether or not these children will eventually heal.

[yankeedame]

Yes, the human species will survive, I don't think anyone is disputing that. Whether our progeny will be living in a civilized society under the rule of law, or will be living through a new Dark Ages, remains to be seen....

I know it is thin comfort, but history shows us, repeatedly, that whenever there has been a definitive change in human society e.g. the Industrial Revolution, the creation/use of the internal combustion engine, the wheel, the evolution from hunter-gather stage to settled communities, there has always been a massive, unsettling of human societies. Alway.

With the advent of the Computer Age, we have passed childhood's end. We have evolved into a new phase of human existance as sure as if we had sailed the seas and discovered a new contenient.

The ying to this yang, alas, is the convolutions - in everything - that we are going though, and will continue to go through till the seas calm. To us who have no choice but to live through it, the passing will take many weary and distressing years; but in the course of human history it will be little more than the blink of an eye.

"To the stars through tears."

[F.J. Mitchell]

BUMP!

[F.J. Mitchell]

"onehipdad."

Not on topic, but I gotta say it anyway: Your name can indicate only one of two things. Either you have been in a terrible accident and lost one hip, or your children have convinced you that they and their pals, consider you one cool dude. Okay, three things-you really are a hip dad.

Question is: Are your admirers in their teens yet? Not that you won't be hip again in their view, sometime between their thirteenth birthday and the twentieth, thirtieth or fourtieth birthday.

THe test of genuine hipness though, is your children are in the peak of their teens, and still treat you like onehipdad, even when they don't want anything.

[onehipdad]

Vanity, with apologies:

Three sons (23,19,15) all self-motivated high-achievers and a wife and mom who keeps us all in line (as best she can)

the handle just came to me one day, sorta like the sound of one hand clapping kind of thing...

[F.J. Mitchell]

I do not believe there is one iota of vanity involved, and certainly no need for apologies.

Sounds like the Parents respect the children and the children respect the parents and the respect is merited all around.

May I extend my sincere congradulations to Onehipdad, Onehipmom and to their genuine all American family?

Confidently: My children are probably older than you , my grand children, older than your children, and yet they all still consider Granny and me, pretty doggone cool.

May God bless you all.

[Under the Radar]

Actually, what you wrote is quite comforting on a macro level. Thank you.