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Too many young lives ruined |
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Written by Jari Rannankari and Meryl Doyle
Prince George
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 |
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B.C.'s Representative for Children and Youth claims that following a review, the ministry failed in many aspects, to the tune of 31 child deaths since 1999.
How many lives must be lost or ruined before our government sees the need to change the rules and laws involving children?
The same representative also said she sees the ministry gathering each incident as a new complaint instead of a pattern.
We personally know of an existing case where the lives of six children are being affected by the ministry's inability to draw from the past 15 years of repetitive drug use resulting in child abuse,neglect and abandonment.
Doesn't it seem miraculous that a couple of months of counselling can cure a lifetime wasted away by drug abuse? Indeed, parents are allowed to reoffend many times and their children are tossed around as though they are not human beings with rights. Warning labels are put on movies and video games to protect children, yet our society lets this system carry on.
How much longer will we as a society ask children to accept these judgments on their behalf? There must be a number of intelligent people making these decisions that will add up the facts and make some changes. Are the deaths of 31 children not enough reasons to facilitate a change?
It does not seem that the term "child protection" is well suited when all the laws seem to set everything in place to return innocent children to unfit parents. People need to sit up and take notice and complain to our lawmakers that it's time to revise this system and not let parents manipulate the laws and continue to destroy these vulnerable lives.
Stop this madness. Lives are being ruined. It is truly distressful and heartbreaking, but moreover, needless.
Being a parent is a privilege that should be respected and upheld and definitely monitored or revoked for people who prove, over years of repetition, to misuse their privilege and subject however many children they bear to a hopeless, unfulfilling life.
-- Jari Rannankari and Meryl Doyle
Prince George
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