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American Fork man pleads guilty to abusing child

Mom | 10:46 p.m. Sept. 4, 2008

WHEN are people going to wake up and realize that by far the most abusive place for a child is in a foster "home."

Child "Protection" needs to be abolished. They take babies and children from good families, and give them to monsters. This has been going on for too long, and it has to stop. Our children deserve better.

Social Science Professor | 1:43 a.m. Sept. 5, 2008

Statistically, the chances of a child being sexually or physically abused are 9 times higher if the mother has a live in boy friend. I imagine the statistics are similar or higher in foster child care situations. I would like to do the research myself here in Utah.

Hmmm | 1:27 p.m. Sept. 8, 2008

To answer both comments...first "Mom" your views are extreme. If you saw the circumstances from where these children are removed, you would not call them "good families". They need help to care for their children--foster care provides (in MOST cases) a safe place for children while their families heal. MOST foster parents are kind, gentle folks. A few "bad" ones get through and we are sick when it happens--no child should ever be hurt anywhere!
For the professor, in Utah a family cannot be licensed if there is a live in paramour. They either have to be single or legally married.

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