Ah, Saturday - how I love you!
Feb. 5th, 2005 11:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgI didn't have a chance to note it, but Thursday?
We got confirmation that the State of California has licensed our home for placement eligibility.
This means dick until the county of Los Angeles does the same, but it's a big step in the right direction.
Our home is satisfactory for sustaining life. Booyah.
We are now legal. How about that?
*scratches head* How long has this taken? I think it'll be in a year in June sometime. I should go back through the entries and see -
However. Florida - yet again - with the help of Utah - reassures me that all these procedures, cross-checks and inspections are necessary.
I can assure you, we've seen folks that look like this in our classes. Not many of them. But yeah.
Married.
Got a nice car - a gold, 2000 Lexus SUV.
Straight - obviously. And they like kids - hey, they have seven of them - holy cow!
And Florida, how could you go wrong? Jeb Bush, Disney and all the orange juice you can drink! How could you go wrong?
I'll tell you. When you look, judge and don't think or question authority.
These people starved and tortured their adoptive children to the point where - allegedly - '(pulled) out the children's toenails with pliers and (kept) them so malnourished they "looked like pictures from Auschwitz," according to authorities.
I'll firmly remind you in clear English -
My TIES class had five same-sex couples in it. FOUR of those were male partnerships. And they were asking for the hardest placements there are. TIES is for specifically for placements where the children are drug-exposed. Period.
The one couple who got their placement before the classes ended was one of those male partnerships. And of of those fellas was an elementary school principal. (Wish I could keep up with them - I'd like to stay in touch. We'll see.)
Not once - not ever - in all of the classes we took, the discussions we've had, nowhere - did we hear of children being removed from a placement because a same-sex partnership molested or took advantage of their children. I would think it would stick out like a sore thumb if it was common, or a concern. Front page news - considering the current trend in criminalizing homosexuality. (As if that ever worked. *rolls eyes*)
But a lot of those couples grew up in broken, abusive homes themselves.
I'm far more likely to believe what I can confirm for myself.
Florida thinks gays can't parent.
Frankly, they lose children in their care (which, is actually a nationwide problem) - but they think people like these winners are suitable? More than one, twice, three, four - how many times?
Don't ask me to think Florida knows who can and can't parent. Or why. (And Utah did the work for them in catching them.)
So there. *sticks out tongue*
(Who was it who thought folks who made the south look bad needed a specific "double whacking" for that purpose alone? These jokers SO qualify that that - )
We got confirmation that the State of California has licensed our home for placement eligibility.
This means dick until the county of Los Angeles does the same, but it's a big step in the right direction.
Our home is satisfactory for sustaining life. Booyah.
We are now legal. How about that?
*scratches head* How long has this taken? I think it'll be in a year in June sometime. I should go back through the entries and see -
However. Florida - yet again - with the help of Utah - reassures me that all these procedures, cross-checks and inspections are necessary.
I can assure you, we've seen folks that look like this in our classes. Not many of them. But yeah.
Married.
Got a nice car - a gold, 2000 Lexus SUV.
Straight - obviously. And they like kids - hey, they have seven of them - holy cow!
And Florida, how could you go wrong? Jeb Bush, Disney and all the orange juice you can drink! How could you go wrong?
I'll tell you. When you look, judge and don't think or question authority.
These people starved and tortured their adoptive children to the point where - allegedly - '(pulled) out the children's toenails with pliers and (kept) them so malnourished they "looked like pictures from Auschwitz," according to authorities.
I'll firmly remind you in clear English -
My TIES class had five same-sex couples in it. FOUR of those were male partnerships. And they were asking for the hardest placements there are. TIES is for specifically for placements where the children are drug-exposed. Period.
The one couple who got their placement before the classes ended was one of those male partnerships. And of of those fellas was an elementary school principal. (Wish I could keep up with them - I'd like to stay in touch. We'll see.)
Not once - not ever - in all of the classes we took, the discussions we've had, nowhere - did we hear of children being removed from a placement because a same-sex partnership molested or took advantage of their children. I would think it would stick out like a sore thumb if it was common, or a concern. Front page news - considering the current trend in criminalizing homosexuality. (As if that ever worked. *rolls eyes*)
But a lot of those couples grew up in broken, abusive homes themselves.
I'm far more likely to believe what I can confirm for myself.
Florida thinks gays can't parent.
Frankly, they lose children in their care (which, is actually a nationwide problem) - but they think people like these winners are suitable? More than one, twice, three, four - how many times?
Don't ask me to think Florida knows who can and can't parent. Or why. (And Utah did the work for them in catching them.)
So there. *sticks out tongue*
(Who was it who thought folks who made the south look bad needed a specific "double whacking" for that purpose alone? These jokers SO qualify that that - )
