Inspired by: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33318499/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

If you were offering something for sale, like the couple in the story, and someone approached you offering to swap two children for the item, would you:

1. Report her ( Read more... )

So let's say your spouse is a hoarder. Like, collect anything and everything, never throw anything away, piles upon piles of everything up to the ceiling, every room in the house, some rooms so full you can't even enter the room. Floor isn't visible anywhere. Stairs are dangerous because of the chaos. Most windows are covered, only one exit door is ( Read more... )

( After reading this, )

If parents allow a child to overindulge and become obese, is it ( Read more... )

Do you feel a stranger has a right to inject themselves into choices you make in regards to your children, specifically obvious choices that are not be healthy for the child ( Read more... )

Let's say you are standing on someone's porch, and you realize that there is a catpiss stank coming from inside that home. You know that an infant and an older child live there. You are on very poor terms with the adults in the home, so an offer to help clean up their filth is out, so out that the mere suggestion would probably incite the adults in ( Read more... )

Is it OK to punish your kid by strapping her into her carseat (by herself, in the car, indefinately) for not apologizing for tearing a book the night before or for any other reason? The child is 18 months old, BTW.

If you knew someone was doing this would you call CPS? What should CPS do about it?

A hypothetical situation (inspired by tv ( Read more... )

A woman is the mother of 2.5 year-old twins.  She, her boyfriend/babydaddy and the twins live in a one bedroom apartment.  The apartment is filthy (not cluttered...FILTHY, with week-old dirty dishes on the floor, overturned ashtrays, cockroaches, etc.)  Although one of the twins has had numerous problems with his lungs, both she and her boyfriend ( Read more... )

I'm on a messageboard where someone posted asking for prayers and positive thoughts because she may finally get her kids back out of foster care. The story she tells is that she was at work until 6 am, went to sleep as usual, daddy went to the store for a couple of things while everyone was still out at 7. Then the kids woke up and decided to go ( Read more... )