My job as an Environmental Health Specialist for the local government has taken me to some interesting homes .. though honestly using the word "home" seems to be the wrong word to use here. Using that word implies things like "home is where the heart is" and some kind of warm environment surrounded by people you love. I would say these are more like cold dwellings. I always knew that everyone had their own opinion regarding house cleaning but I think I was woefully unprepared for how some individuals keep their houses. I have seen garbage stacked as tall as I am, feces (yes human and animal) scattered throughout the house. Animals running around the house peeing wherever they desire. Cockroaches so thick they are climbing out the light sockets in the middle of day. Fleas jumping so violently that the carpet looks like it is alive and my new favorite, bed bugs competing for space on the bed. It it is bad enough that an adult might chose to live like this, surrounded by their mounds of garbage, but when they decide to have their children live like that I have to say it ticks me off.
Recently in the news you may have read about the two young boys found locked in a dog kennel if not check this link out
http://www.knopnews2.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=2981:children-rescued-from-kennel&Itemid=105
Now this is not a case of a hoarder with some kind of mental illness such as OCD that has had years to manifest, this is a case of four young adults who simply should not be allowed to reproduce because they are obviously idiots who are lazy. In my pre-mom days I struggled to not only get pregnant but to stay pregnant and here these people have children and treat them quite literally like dogs. The thing that makes me really sad is that most likely they will end up with some kind of suspended or minor punishment, be allowed to take "parenting" classes and then the idiotic court system will want to reunite the children with their parents because they are under the misconception that is is best for a child to be with their "birth" parents. Look I am a mother and do understand that bond but let us be honest not everyone is a good parent. They may be able to pop out a child but that does not mean they should ever be allowed to raise one. I am pretty sure if you are stupid enough to think it is okay to lock your children in a dog kennel that you are only rowing with one ore in the water. Do you really think that these people will take a parenting class and the light bulb will suddenly click on? "ohhhh we should clean up our house and the dog kennel is actually for our dogs NOT our kids" .. "thanks Division of Family and Children for teaching me that???".
The solution is easy. Everyday in newspapers all across this country there are infertile couples begging to adopt children, there are people who wait years for the opportunity. Let us stop the spread of stupid and give these kids a real chance at life and stop giving them back. Look in some cases it should be ONE chance only not dozens. So many of these children will be placed in foster care, given back, placed in foster care, given back .. you get the picture. If we have to spend thousands of taxpayer dollars on trying to turn these people into parents I would rather spend the money having them sterialized. Yes I said it .. what a heartless person I am. I am just sick and tired of reading (and witnessing) cases of abuse against children. It is a sad world we live in where a mother can even attempt to justify locking her kids in a kennel, a basement, a closet, or beating them, putting cigerettes out on them, not feeding them, drowning them, the list goes on and on .. and what do we do .. we attempt to educate them why it was wrong. Perhaps we should just treat them exactly how they treated their kids. They should go to jail .. the rooms are too large, no instead let us buy them a lovely kennel to stay in.
Climbing off the soap box .. have a great day!
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