SECOND OF A SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THE GOVERNMENT ACTIONS AGAINST THE FUNDAMENTALIST CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS.
Last week I wrote about my concerns relative to Government action against the Fundamentalist church in Texas and how it might eventually impact others.
That article generated more positive response than any which I had ever posted.
As ABC NEWS.com reported Thursday, Texas Rangers met in Colorado Springs, Colo., Wednesday with local police to discuss a possible connection between Rozita Swinton, 33, of Colorado Springs, and telephone calls made regarding activities at the polygamist compound in Eldorado, Texas, that prompted the police raid and removal of the children April 3
The use of a fraudulent call to move against these children should cause alarm to all of us.
This article is framed toward the effect of taking the children from their parents and away from the environment to which they were accustomed.
The article last week was based on my local knowledge and observation of the failure of some foster care homes. This week I have compiled statistical data gathered by others.
Children who stay in the homes of even troubled families are likely to fare better in life than if they are put into foster care, a new US study released Tuesday found.
In a study of foster youth in 3 Midwestern states, (Courtney, Terao, and Bost, 2004). reported 1/3 having been pregnant,
Among older foster girls in Illinois, 40% of African American and 12% of Caucasian girls were pregnant or parenting (Leathers and Testa, 2002).
By age 19, nearly half of young women in foster care have been pregnant, compared to a fifth of their peers not in foster care. Said another way, those in foster care are 2.5 times more likely than those not in foster care to have been pregnant by age 19.
These and other studies suggest that about 1/3 of the girls in foster homes become pregnant.
ABC news reports that more than 20 sect girls were pregnant before age 17.
Texas officials announced that 534 women and children were removed from the polygamist compound. There were 401 children placed in state custody because a judge deemed them in imminent danger of physical abuse
If there were 200 girls and as ABC reports 20 were pregnant before 17 on 8.5%, this would compare to 66 which would later become pregnant in foster homes.
If these statistics based on government studies are accurate, how are these girls expected to benefit from being torn from their homes.
There were about 200 boys removed from their parents, does the Judge deem them in imminent danger of physical sexual abuse.
Studies from 1,575 Court cases of abuse and neglect that occurred between 1967 and 1971 using documented records show that we can expect 49% of the sample had been arrested, 18% for a violent crime, compared to 38% of the control group, 14% for a violent crime. (The control groups were from the same socioeconomic sample)(traffic offenders were not calculated.)
I could find no studies which indicated the crime level among the fundamentalists, but one might guess it to be very low.
Dr. Bruce Perry, a child psychiatrist who testified for the children last week, said FLDS children may be easily taken advantage of by outsiders because of the strict control church leaders have had over their daily lives.
Children raised on the FLDS compound must wear pioneer-style dress and keep their hair pinned up in braids, reflecting their standards of modesty. For the same reason, they have little knowledge of pop culture. They must pray twice a day. They tend vegetable gardens and raise dairy cows, and must eat fresh food. And they are exceedingly polite, always saying "please" and "thank you."
Studies of schooling The children have been educated in a schoolhouse, using a home-school curriculum, on the compound, and may actually be ahead of public-school students their ages, lawyers said
When we study this case, we see the example where child abuse and incest are used to charge the whole community. Where is the rule of Law? Why do we throw out the whole constitution? Why not arrest and try the guilty?
In California the secularists are trying to jail parents for teaching their children at home..
Texas law went into the compound like gang busters with automatic weapons. Thank God. We did not have another Waco or Ruby Ridge.
There was never a 16-year-old girl being abused as the search warrant implied. It appears now that it appears it was a 33-year-old woman from Colorado Springs, Colorado.
As a result of this lie, these children will move from a non tax supported home to Government supported facilities and their complete life will be impaired.
They have been moved from the frying pan into the fire.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
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