please please take that the kid away
But then I should have been taken away from my parents in 1961 when we would come home from the beach burnt to a crisp. We stayed all day with my parents taking no more precautions with us than putting our shirts back on in the heat of the afternoon sun--which we immediately removed once we were out of sight.
But back then it didn't take a village. Today, society gets to judge our parenting skills. I'm not sure if that's covered under 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' I understand nanny science tells us to fear sun exposure (I know I'm inviting anecdotes about skin cancer, but please spare us all. That's a different argument).
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending this woman, she's too creepy for that. I'm just making a general lament. File it under one more blow against family sovereignty.
But then I should have been taken away from my parents in 1961 when we would come home from the beach burnt to a crisp. We stayed all day with my parents taking no more precautions with us than putting our shirts back on in the heat of the afternoon sun--which we immediately removed once we were out of sight.This is 5 year old kid,sometimes it does take a villiage if its something like this when mommy is the villiage idiot and child endangerment is involved
But back then it didn't take a village. Today, society gets to judge our parenting skills. I'm not sure if that's covered under 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' I understand nanny science tells us to fear sun exposure (I know I'm inviting anecdotes about skin cancer, but please spare us all. That's a different argument).
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending this woman, she's too creepy for that. I'm just making a general lament. File it under one more blow against family sovereignty.
If this were happening in Bizzerkley, that woman would be on death row by now.
That's the problem with the arrest. It's not automatic that people get skin cancer. Millions of people receive sun exposure, sometimes in excess of what is considered 'safe', yet they never develop skin cancer.The two places I know of with governments big enough to monitor and tackle all of these issues were the Soviet Union and communist China.
So we should start arresting people over not heeding a health tip? Like eat an apple a day or drink 8 glasses of water a day, stop smoking we know it can kill?
But what do we do with contradictory health advice? Statistic show people are not getting proper sunlight for their bodies to make vitamin D. Can we start arresting mothers who keep children out of the sun?
The little girl is FIVE years old and a redhead with very fair skin.Maybe the question should be: Can we afford(1) a government big enough to enact and enforce the law making it illegal?
It is ILLEGAL for anyone under age 14 to even be in a tanning salon
In fact tanning in this manner has been proven hazardous
This is NOT the same as taking your child to the beach for the day..... where "most" parents have the good sense to keep them out of direct sun and liberally apply sun screen.
Did my parents endanger me in 1961? Sunlight is the same or worse than bulbs. I blistered quite a few times on those beach outings. But then, so did my cousins and friends and other children at the beach. As I recall Mom looked like a lobster more than a few times during my youth. Should she have been arrested?
It sounds like in your libertarian world AC we should look the other way when it comes to child abuse.....Are we so much better off now, with this level of legal regulation, or were we better off in the past?
Maybe the question should be: Can we afford(1) a government big enough to enact and enforce the law making it illegal?
I think that is fundamental, for anybody claiming to be conservative.
(1)Afford not only in money terms, but in encroachment into everyday lives of the family and community.
Are we so much better off now, with this level of legal regulation, or were we better off in the past?
In the past people had fewer children outside wedlock, risking shame, etc. Perhaps they commited fewer acts of negligence with their children, risking their families' and neighbors' involvement.
From my observations about the state of society, I say we were better off in the past.
Not at all. Child abuse is not what I'm talking about.
In the story I told earlier, that was about my brothers and me getting severe sunburns, not whether my parents understood the potential long-term effects of sun exposure.
I had some pretty severe sunburns that keep me up in tears at night. Was that child abuse? Or just my parent's ignorance? Do we want to arrest the stupid?
And here's another side. My in-laws were ruined when their youngest child got a black eye on a swing set, went to school the next day where a teacher reported it to child protective services as potential abuse. It was a play yard accident that dragged them through months of hell.
All well and good, but how does that help the abused children of today? Do we tell them "tough s***, you should've been born in the good old days"?There were no good old days. People faced far worse problems, and learned from an early age that they needed to do their best, take care of themselves.
The mother's face looks like a brown leather suitcase.I first thought this woman was a mixed race aborigine as some them have blond hair
When we got sunburned at the beach it was stupid but not deliberate. Big difference.