And now her three children are in state custody, which is no cake walk.. I was temporarily in state custody as a child and the people that "look after you" could care less about you. You're herded into a dorm setting with other kids who are way worse off than you. They feed you crappy school cafeteria food for every meal and treat you like an animal. If you're a girl, they force you to submit to a pregnancy test, as well.

I hope her son gets the counseling he needs to process what she did to him. And I hope a relative steps in to care for the children so they can stay together. Foster care is horrible. I know too many people with horror stories of rape and abuse to ever agree with a child being in a foster home

Horrific.

Horrible case indeed... truly warped mind to ever think this was how to handle bad grades.

However I have to take issue with UsesProzac...

My family was a foster family for many years and took in many, many kids, some for short term (days/weeks), others for years at a time. (young kids of less than school and early school age) We gave them a stable environment and care and support when their parents were holey incapable of doing so.

Drug addicts, abusive partners, abusive mothers etc. etc. We got kids who were horrendously shell shocked from what they had come from. After some time with my family (my parents really, I was young myself) they came out of their shells and started being happy and 'normal' in that they could enjoy playing again.

While I do agree that there are absolutely cases of foster families doing bad things, I think you'll find the majority are wonderful people who have nothing but the kid's best interest at heart.
>> ^UsesProzac:
Foster care is horrible. I know too many people with horror stories of rape and abuse to ever agree with a child being in a foster home

Nothing but the kid's best interest at heart? What about that lovely paycheck every month?

@campionidelmondo this layout in unreadable in night mode...

- campion's gone?!

maybe @lucky760 can help - this layout in unreadable in night mode...

To which layout do you refer? Are you viewing the Dark channel (i.e., dark.videosift.com)? If so, the sun and moon styles aren't available there because channels have their own styles. If I were to guess, I'd say you're probably using CDM's GreaseMonkey script that colorizes the page for you and that it may conflict with the Dark channel styles.

All of that is just guesswork mind you. If I'm off, please elaborate on what exactly the problem is you're experiencing.

>> ^UsesProzac:

Nothing but the kid's best interest at heart? What about that lovely paycheck every month?


That's a pretty sweeping generalization.

>> ^lucky760:

To which layout do you refer? Are you viewing the Dark channel (i.e., dark.videosift.com)? If so, the sun and moon styles aren't available there because channels have their own styles. If I were to guess, I'd say you're probably using CDM's GreaseMonkey script that colorizes the page for you and that it may conflict with the Dark channel styles.
All of that is just guesswork mind you. If I'm off, please elaborate on what exactly the problem is you're experiencing.


What he means is that if you use the dark theme and view this post it looks like this but if you use the light theme it looks like this.

There are other channels that have their own style and have this problem as well.

Ah, I gotcha. Thanks for helping me see the dark.

Should be all fixed.

>> ^UsesProzac:

Nothing but the kid's best interest at heart? What about that lovely paycheck every month?


Um, I dunno how it works in the States, but here in Aus, the money you get BARELY covers expenses. You DO NOT go into foster care for the money. If you do you're an idiot and will be poor.

You really do get just enough to cover the extra food, clothing etc. for another child, no more.

My parents did it to be able to give some kids happy times and a self of worth again, and man, the way that some of the kids were, and the way that they acted in certain situations made you really, really wonder what horrible things they had to endure usually.

Violence to animals makes me sad and very, very angry. She's a monster.

I can't help but think of the South Park bus driver.

"Sit down and shut up or the cute little bunny gets it!"