An eleven year old little girl is on the social services At Risk Register. This means that her upbringing and welfare are supposedly supervised by a social worker. The child lives with her 34 year old single mother who has five additional children by four different fathers. Several of the other children have already been taken into social services residential care. The mother is a drug addict and living on welfare payments in council accommodation.
The child, who smokes 20 cigarettes a day, goes to a party, gets drunk, and has sex with an older boy. She 'decides' to keep the baby which is due in a few weeks and her mother says she is 'proud' of her for it.
What sort of a society allows this level of child neglect to pass without censure and without taking the child into protective custody? Pity the child, and God help the baby.
4 comments:
This is frightening ....Jan xx
and then charges the father with rape.
May I refer you to the your post in this journal?
If we remove Christianity from the scene then what defines ethics and morality?
It's sad when a child grows up in this type of environment, and is more than likely doomed to the same cycle as her mother. Some break out of that mold, while most don't.
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