[blparent] Blind Parents Meeting

[Elizabeth Cooks]

Just so that people know, a child cannot be removedfrom a home without them 
going through their own procedures first.  Parents should know their rights 
before allowing a child to be removed, and report any worker who is 
overzealous enough to try.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leanne Merren" <leemer02 at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Blind Parents Meeting


> Oh my goodness, I had no idea there were such nosey, over bearing, 
> judgmental people out there!  I mean, you can't take your daughter 
> swimming for fear of social services showing up at your door?  Did you ask 
> this person if they sleep well at night, knowing that they could possibly 
> rip poor, innocent children from good loving homes?  Do they want her 
> thrown into a foster home with total strangers, all because someone chose 
> to judge the capabilities of her parents?  Some people really have no 
> clue, and yet they think they have the right to judge!
> Sorry, vent over...maybe.  That just makes me sick.  I have never dealt 
> with social services, even though Tyler and I are both visually impaired, 
> and I pray to God we never do.  It is always in the back of my mind 
> though.  So sad.
> Leanne
> "Faith is being sure of what we hope for
> and certain of what we do not see."
> Hebrews 11:1
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
> To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 3:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Blind Parents Meeting
>
>
>>I guess I would have said, "are you volunteering to come with me everytime 
>>I
>> want to take my daughter swimming?" V
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 10:50 AM
>> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Blind Parents Meeting
>>
>> Sarah's father can see, and we've had one round with Social Services
>> already.  Then the other day, someone I know saw me carrying a baby
>> flotation device into my house from the trunk of the car.  It's an inner
>> tube with a seat built in for the baby's legs.  Anyway, the person said 
>> that
>>
>> of course, I would only take the baby in the pool if there was a sighted
>> person to watch.  There's a pool for the condos where I live.  I said not
>> necessarily, because if I were right there, with my hands on the baby the
>> whole time, I would be satisfied with that.  She said she would call 
>> Social
>> Services if she ever saw me taking the baby in the pool by myself--which
>> means, I guess, that I'll only go when there's a sighted person to watch. 
>> I
>>
>> don't want those people knocking at my door again.
>>
>> Jo Elizabeth
>>
>> "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed
>> until it is faced."--James Baldwin
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M (IS)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at ngc.com>
>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 6:46 AM
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Blind Parents Meeting
>>
>>
>>>I don't think any of us are excluded per sea, but putting out these
>>> stats with no other data is nothing more then fear mongering in my
>>> oppinion. What value is to be gained in that?
>>
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