Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Soapbox item ahead........

Well, since I haven't been officially on the soapbox in a while, here's one for ya. Britney Spears.
what is the girl thinking? I think she got married too soon, definitely had kids too soon and now what a mess she has! She became a star at a very young age, and as history has shown, kids that become stars always seem to make a mess of their lives with drugs and/or alcohol. Todd Bridges, Drew Barrymore, Danny Bonaduce, Corey Heim any of the Brat Pack kids.........And now Britney.
She hasn't followed the judges orders that would allow her to keep custody of her kids. So, the media is having a field day with this. They act like she's the only mom in America that has lost custody of their kids because she won't stay away from the drugs and alcohol. WRONG! I know a little girl who was recently adopted by the people that were here foster parents for over 2 years because our court system drug it's feet about terminating the mom's parental rights. I think that if other criminals get the 3 strikes and you're out policy, so should moms who's kids have been put in foster care. If you don't do the parenting classes, the drug screens or (this is ludicrous) the visitations scheduled with their child, then they should automatically be terminated as a parent. If you can do the right things in the first place, then you are given the chance to make things right and still don't, then the courts should just end it. Finally, the girl's rights were petitioned for termination. AND SHE CONTESTED! What is she thinking? Eventually, she withdrew her contest and the adoption went through.

Where was the media for all of this? AND this mom had another child that CYS (Child Youth Services) should have taken as soon as it was born and didn't. Guess what? She broke that baby. She claims that the handle on the baby carrier broke while the dad was carrying it down the steps at the grandmom's house and the baby fell out and down the steps. Then the story was that they were going somewhere and they put the carrier on the trunk lid and it fell off. Then the story was it was on the roof of the car. Come on. How stupid do they think we are? So, the baby was taken to the hospital with bruised ribs, a concussion, fractured skull, black eyes and bruising behind the ears. Hospital people do the right thing and call authorities for suspected abuse. Since she never get the story straight, she is arrested on child abuse charges. Someone posts bail for her and they show her release on the news along with an interview by mom's grandma. Grandma says that the girl is a wonderful, caring mother and would never beat a child. Nice choice of words. And if she was so wonderful, why does she have a child already in foster care with pending petition for adoption? As they show the girl walking to a vehicle to leave jail, she says she never hurt the child and then says "I want my kid back!" Nice.
So, the trial is now taking place and there's been nothing on the news at all. So, where's the media when it's not Britney Spears?

see what I'm talkin' about here:
www.kdka.com/ambridge couple
www.wpxi.com/woman accused of infant abuse turns herself in

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