How do you tell somebody, 'You need to feed your children’?"

Ok, look at that title..."How do you tell somebody, 'You need to feed your children’?"

That was not asked by an employee being trained to go into a home suspected of child abuse or mistreatment of a child. It was asked by Reggie Lloyd, director of South Carolina's State Law Enforcement Division. The director of the law enforcement division of an entire state. Let's look at the quote in its entirety...

"We can’t prevent everything. How do you tell somebody, 'You need to feed your children’?"

Aren't there laws about child abuse Mr. State Law Enforcement Director? Isn't starvation a form of abuse, Mr. Law Enforement Director? Are even prisoners of war, terrorists, or mass murderers allowed to be starved? No. No! NO!

So why should some parents be allowed to not feed their children?!

It's disgusting that the Director of Law Enforcement can't tell parents; "You have to feed your children" - almost as disgusting as letting your child starve - because that passivity is allowing parents to decide to not feed their children.

That's twigi!

The story: Four Deaths Bring State Probe

Ingestion of Library Books May Be Harmful

It's the ALA vs. the CPSC as libraries the country over are concerned the new lead limits applied by the Consumer Product Safety Commission will wipe out their children's book sections. According to the new regulations, public, school, academic and museum libraries would be required either to remove all their children’s books or ban all children under 12 from visiting the facilities as of February 10.

Ok, lead poisoning in children is pretty much the cause of ingestion. So, who's letting 12 year olds and younger eat books? Ok, you're right, a toddler might get a hold of a book and chew on it, but are toddlers toddling around libraries without supervision? Are parents leaving childrens' books checked out from the library out where the tots can munch on them?

Like most things where regulations affect childrens' products, it does come down to that supervision compnent, a notion seemingly outdated. Babyproof the rooms, babyproof the baby toys, babyproof the library books so we don't have to actually pay that much attention to the babies.

February 10 was the date the libraries would have to be up to code with their childrens' books, so hopefully the CPSC said, "Yeah, we're not talking about you guys...duh!" But I can't find proof of that, so I'll have to assume it didn't go full out twigi...

That or I missed the book burning...and I feel cheated that no one called me for that. Watching Nazis burn books on old videos would become so much more authentic if I got to see one in person.

http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pressreleases2009/january2009/wocpsc.cfm