I believe that if I'd witnessed the kids doing this to the dog, I'd be looking at child abuse charges.
But that's probably just what made these kids so abusive and disregardful of the suffering of an animal.
I can't figure how we'd even begin to deal with so many kids growing up in so many horrid environments.
In the meantime, all you can do is reprimand them. I hope you said something, but then, that might provoke them into shooting you or something, so be careful.
You are so correct. Animal abuse is one of the most reliable indicators of sociopathic tendacy, but just how many kids do we have like this, who are "off the radar" because they at least aren't being viciously abused and at least have housing, food, and an adult presence-sort of.
I guess just too much territory for the social workers to cover. We have over 25,000 kids in the system already, who we have to care for because their parents can't or won't. We have tens of thousands more who are "at risk",because of extremely poor home conditions. Then, there are mentally and physically handicapped adults who are falling through the cracks and onto the streets, including many combat vets who are very impaired, and defenseless old people.
So, if the kid is in a halfway viable environment, he's going to stay in it, especially since foster care is mostly no improvement on the kid's home.
And foster care is usually no improvement because of the attitudes of both the adults and the kids who are involved in the system. There are still plenty of adults who only take those kids in for the stipend. They care nothing about helping the kids in their care. Worst yet, these same so-called "do-gooders" will whine that they they aren't getting enough money to look after the little darlings.
Then you have some of the kids who are so out-of-pocket that they end up bouncing from foster home to foster home. I used to work for a social service agency, and I would see the notices from fed-up foster parents to have a kid removed from their home because of the kid's egregious behavior. The stuff some of the kids pulled was just outrageous. I couldn't much blame the foster parents who tried to do their best by the kid. People can only put up with so much.
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I believe that if I'd witnessed the kids doing this to the dog, I'd be looking at child abuse charges.
But that's probably just what made these kids so abusive and disregardful of the suffering of an animal.
I can't figure how we'd even begin to deal with so many kids growing up in so many horrid environments.
In the meantime, all you can do is reprimand them. I hope you said something, but then, that might provoke them into shooting you or something, so be careful.
Forget the cops... Where's the social worker in this situation. Treating animals this way is one of the earliest indicators of sociopathic behavior.
You are so correct. Animal abuse is one of the most reliable indicators of sociopathic tendacy, but just how many kids do we have like this, who are "off the radar" because they at least aren't being viciously abused and at least have housing, food, and an adult presence-sort of.
I guess just too much territory for the social workers to cover. We have over 25,000 kids in the system already, who we have to care for because their parents can't or won't. We have tens of thousands more who are "at risk",because of extremely poor home conditions. Then, there are mentally and physically handicapped adults who are falling through the cracks and onto the streets, including many combat vets who are very impaired, and defenseless old people.
So, if the kid is in a halfway viable environment, he's going to stay in it, especially since foster care is mostly no improvement on the kid's home.
And foster care is usually no improvement because of the attitudes of both the adults and the kids who are involved in the system. There are still plenty of adults who only take those kids in for the stipend. They care nothing about helping the kids in their care. Worst yet, these same so-called "do-gooders" will whine that they they aren't getting enough money to look after the little darlings.
Then you have some of the kids who are so out-of-pocket that they end up bouncing from foster home to foster home. I used to work for a social service agency, and I would see the notices from fed-up foster parents to have a kid removed from their home because of the kid's egregious behavior. The stuff some of the kids pulled was just outrageous. I couldn't much blame the foster parents who tried to do their best by the kid. People can only put up with so much.
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