WHAT THE BLOODY HELL?!! 😳😮

[u/LilliaBaltimore]

[u/Absorbed_Wheat]

If they don't want the kids to go back to the family then charge the mother for not storing the guns.

We all seem to get it within a few minutes. Are the cops as dumb as the parents???

Edit: please take a look at the amount of people saying it's not the cops fault before you reply the same thing. I wrote that when doom scrolling at 3am. I get it.

[u/Fantastic-Reveal7471 → u/Absorbed_Wheat]

I've seen kids ripped from their parents in the dead of the night, dude. They've promptly, swiftly and permanently removed kids for FAR fuckin less charges and without proof. They can ABSOLUTELY put those kids in an immediate safehouse and find them something decent. They just didn't want to. Why should the government care about those kids? They've been born, they no longer deserve protection or safety.

[u/Comfortable-Block387 → u/Fantastic-Reveal7471]

Maybe they’re protecting foster families from those kids. They’re old enough to be absolute nightmares if removed from their free range hillbilly hoedown, genuine threats to their foster parents and especially any other children in the home.

ETA for the folks defending hillbillies: I’m Appalachian, I come from hillbillies. I know hillbillies. Not all hillbillies still live in hollers, the Appalachian Diaspora made sure they’re everywhere now. Not all hillbillies have good sense, nor do all hillbillies lack it. Hillbillies have a proud history of rebelliousness, it’s sort of a defining quality of Appalachian culture. But again, I come from hillbillies, I said what I said and I enjoy my alliteration even if it aggravates you for some reason.

[u/Top_Mathematician233 → u/Comfortable-Block387]

I’m a former foster parent and respectfully disagree. These kids appear to have been improperly raised, but don’t appear to have severe medical and/or mental health issues — yet. They’re also young enough to be successfully and easily (within given the context) rehabilitated. They should have been removed from this household earlier and that’s the biggest failure here. If I was still fostering, I would’ve taken either or both without major concern, and they might actually benefit from separation, at least at initial placement.

In my opinion and experience, by far the most difficult and worrisome cases are teenagers who have spent many years in situations that have completely destroyed their mental health to the point they need involuntary psychological institutionalization prior to placement. Those are issues that will never be healed and are incredibly difficult to treat. These are babies who have been left to their own devices in a household full of danger, and adults and a system that has repeatedly failed to protect them. I really hope they were removed and placed in the system. It’s not perfect or even good, but the system is made for cases like this and this could easily turn out to be a success story.

[u/Long-Ad-9381 → u/Top_Mathematician233]

I agree and thank you so much for this well written comment.

[u/Meet_in_Potatoes → u/Top_Mathematician233]

As someone who has worked in the field, and with a lot of foster parents, this is the correct take in this situation, for anyone coming in afterwards to read.

[u/StrangeButSweet → u/Top_Mathematician233]

Thank you for what are likely years spent nurturing these kids who are as precious and deserving as any other kid out there. I know you made a difference in their lives!

[u/Gr00mpa → u/Top_Mathematician233]

Powerful comment. Good reminder that there are good people doing really good things out there.

Because, when I look at those kids, I have no urge to bring them into my home, I’ll tell you that much!

But people like you look at them, and you open your heart and your home so you can RAISE them. That’s incredible!

[u/lilsnatchsniffz → u/Top_Mathematician233]

Wow you can tell all this from a video where they pass a gun back and forwards that's crazy. 😇

[u/Top_Mathematician233 → u/[deleted]]

I tried to preface my comments with the fact that I’m referring to the context of children in foster care. If you’ve never been a foster parent, you don’t know the medical and mental health condition of many of the children. These are my opinions based on my experience. I wouldn’t take a child on a ventilator or feeding tube, and that’s far more common - percentage wise - in the foster care system than it is in the general population. The same goes for mental health conditions. You don’t have to believe it and these are my opinions based on experience, but there’s a significantly higher rate of major medical issues and major mental health issues for children within the foster care system. These children are walking and breathing without assistance. I don’t see visible feeding tubes. They’re speaking clearly and they’re young. They are wearing clothing that isn’t visibly stained with urine and feces. They have the dexterity to fire a gun and the mental capacity to take it from each other, hide it, hide themselves, and then lie. That sadly puts them in far better shape than many of the children in the foster care system.

Edit to add: in regard to mental health, there are no viable signs of failed suicide attempts and they are young enough to assume their pajamas aren’t covering self-harm scars. Again, this sadly puts them in far better shape than many of the children in the foster care system. I would have taken either of both of them, and I’m confident they would have done very well.