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context: These parents had some other man in the car too. They had no diapers for the two year old kid, cockroaches were crawling on him, he smelled like poop, and they couldn’t remember when they last changed him or fed him. All while the car reeks of weed, weed is loose in the car, and they’ve got a handgun under the seat. What horrible neglect. I hope he gets placed in a good home and these nut jobs can get themselves right. They shouldn’t have their child until they do. >
  
  They shouldn’t have their child period >
  
  As someone who's family does a lot of foster care, there are cases where really neglectful parents turn their lives around and become proper caretakers. It's rare, but it happens. >
  
  Glad to hear there are some people who get their act together. Those neglected children should be taken care of by more responsible people in the meantime though. >
  
  More responsible other people just not me. I mean right? 20k kids in foster care in every state. Millions of families zero who really give a damn. Why the outrage its not like anyone else wants those kids. Just being real. >
  
  It's a tough nut to crack. Bad parents are easy to hate, because they shouldn't have had kids in the first place. Responsible people mostly either choose to have their own kids, or not have any kids. Should people who know they don't actually want kids be adopting? That doesn't seem like it's in anyone's best interest. Should people feel guilty because they want to have, you know, their own kids? By your logic many people should be taking up the responsibilities of other grown adults, not to mention the unknown histories and psychological/biological histories and predilections of some random child that you know has been subjected to bad conditions. Just wanting a child doesn't mean you're the right type of parent to raise a potentially highly problematic child, that doesn't even share your biological traits. Does this mean people shouldn't condemn the actions of unfit and irresponsible parents? Hardly.
  I'm not saying that I have a good solution. But you haven't offered one, either. Again, tough problem to crack. >
  
  Yeah, not sure that falls into the category of "good solutions" to this problem. I share your hopes for this kid and others like them. >
  
  Oh, our lawmaker is crazy to think this would work or that it was even ethical. I should have clarified this. >
  
  Sounds like a good way to make sure people with a drug problem don't seek help. I know a couple that had their kids taken away because they had a drug problem. Their kids were taken care of and nobody even knew they had a problem until they sought help to get clean. 4 years later, they still haven't been able to get their kids back. They got screwed for trying to do the right thing. >
  
  The sad part : 
  If they didn't find the weed and gun, the toddler would still be living in a car with cockroaches and reptiles. >
  
  Honestly I'm unfortunately surprised that this gets CPS attention, when I was with my ex-girlfriend in my early 20's, her brother and his wife were basically running a crackhouse with an elementary school aged child. They had CPS called on them 4 times, the kid was always hungry, never bathed, constantly skipped school, their house was like walking through a minefield of used needles and broken bottles. The only way that kid even survived was because his Grandmother actually took care of him a couple days a week.
  CPS saw all this and never did a single fucking thing multiple times. Blows my mind to this day how ineffectual they were for what might have been the worst parents I'd ever seen firsthand. Sometimes I wonder how that kid was doing, he was always starved for attention and would talk my ear off the times we'd babysit him that I'd genuinely spend more time letting him info dump his favorite things on me than with my girlfriend. >
  
  As someone who for reasons has taken that need to infodump and tendency towards social isolation into adulthood, good on you for indulging it a bit but a little coaching may help too >
  
  This was a long time ago man, I haven't seen or talked to that woman or her family in over a decade. >
  
  I was mostly posting for the benefit of any readers, didn’t mean it as a dig >
  
  We need to start increasing parent education classes and stiffer penalties for this type of crime as well as pedophilia. The weapon alone in this case if it turns out to be unregistered should net 25 years >
  
  You don’t register guns. The dad was a felon and hence is prohibited from owning guns. You also can’t concealed carry a gun without a permit in several states— Florida being one of them.
  While parental education classes are a good idea in general I don’t think it would’ve changed anything for these low lifes. >
  
  More of this will happen as abortion continues to be restricted. >
  
  Yea just kill it, solved >
  
  Prevent it from being born. >
  
  Snuff its life out >
  
  Pretty sure you have forgotten what this thread is about…. The kid…. In a car…. In America…. Being abused and neglected >
  
  Nah i just want to help >
  
  Are you planning to adopt this child? >
  
  Yes but im busy adopting dogs because im also anti dog-fighting. And its hard because ive givenup everything i own because im anti theft too. You see i only criticize crimes im fully commited to solving. Thanks for asking