by Funchback 27 Replies latest social current
http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=1494675
I say no. But I do think that the states should pay for child care services though.
Billy Johnson is a Jehovah's Witness
who says he takes kids to meetings to supervise them.
Blount Co. Foster Couple Says Child was Taken over Religion
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Well, foster kids are a gray area as far as what parents can do with them.
A better question is "do people who believe in corporal punishment as being commanded by God, and who deny possibly life-saving medical treatments, qualify as foster parents?"
"My foster children choose what they want to be. But when they're in my home, I have to supervise them. And if they have to go to church, they go there and sit there with a book or a CD player. That's their decision, not my decision to make for them," Billy Johnson said.
Yeah, right! This man is taking foster children to the meetings and is letting them do what they want like listening to a CD player? This man needs to stop lying!
Johnson said the state wouldn't pay for care and he wasn't taking her to change her beliefs, only to supervise her. "I don't care if it was my foster child or a regular child, a 14-year-old doesn't need to stay home alone at night when there's boys running around.
This guy is such a liar. He was bringing her to the meetings hoping to save her so that she can see how good Jehovah really is (his thoughts, not mine!).
When the 14-year-old girl complained, the DCS said Johnson couldn't take her to meetings and had to provide care for her.
I know that must've been a tough decision for the girl since being in the Foster system must be extremely challenging. But I admire her for saying how she really felt despite being taken out of a home.
a 14-year-old doesn't need to stay home alone at night when there's boys running around.
Typical dub statement. I've heard similar.
As far as the foster kids thing, I have to wonder if JWs engage in this to convert them. There was a couple in my old KH that had 3 foster kids. They were successfully converted, and I believe they're all baptized.
Phantom asked:
A better question is "do people who believe in corporal punishment as being commanded by God, and who deny possibly life-saving medical treatments, qualify as foster parents?"
I am no expert on the rules of being a foster parent, but your question begs another question: If a JW foster parent was in a car wreck and the foster child needed blood, does the father have any right to refuse? In other words, whose decision is it to make? The foster parent or the State?
no child should be dragged there,foster or not.
mortons68
Wow. I worked at group homes, & I do agree that many of the kids need constant supervision, even at 16 or 17. However, I have heard of dubs attempting to block blood transfusions on long time foster kids they have converted. So, no, I don't think with their policies on blood & shild molesters that they should be allowed to foster parent. It's not that I have a vendetta against dubs in this area, I'd say the same against christian scientists for their medical views.
Nosferatu-
As far as the foster kids thing, I have to wonder if JWs engage in this to convert them.
I believe this goes on a lot in the JW religion. I personally know someone who did this in my old congregation.
If he did let her take a cd player a nosey elder would have said it wasn't appropriate anyway. So I doubt that would have lasted.
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Ignored One.
Wow...a whole new kind of "bio-terrorism" towards kids if you ask me! I would like to know what other devoutly religious foster families do when the teens in their care do not want to attend services? I doubt that the whining commentary about "This ONLY happened because we are JW's" is really true.
mobbie
