What’s Love Got to Do with It? Everything

My parents, I hate to say, but they were alcoholics, they drank and fought every week-end, my mother would beat me, and once when I ran away to avoid being beaten, I was 12 years old the police picked me up and when I went to court saying I did not want to be returned to my home,  the Judge took me aside and told me a bad mother was better than no mother at all.  I was returned home.  But he was somewhat right,  families should stick together, I shouldn’t have been beaten but I learned how to avoid them while they drank and by the time I was 16 they were mellow, the beating and fighting stopped .  I knew my parents loved me they just had a drinking problem. 

In this day and age, parents are not allowed to hit the kids which is great, I think, but we lose a lot, as far as respect, obedience, and the family unit goes.  Children are taught at an early age if you break it, it’s ok we can get a new one, just like a family, if it’s not good enough you can get a new one.  If the marriage doesn’t work, there’s divorce, and I can get a new one. Any more, kids don’t even want to get married, there’s no commitment.

I think instead of ripping families apart because of drugs, they should help the family more, not punish the entire family, destroy the family.  What would God think?  When did the Judges and CPS become equal to God?  What does love got to do with it?  Everything.   A family that loves together should stay together.  For better or worse, richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, til death does a family part.  I don’t mean abuse or neglect, that should be addressed right away, but if the problem is drugs or alcohol those should be fixed as a family unit.  CPS and our Court system need to quit being so lazy, and instead of breaking the family and getting new ones, they need to work a little harder in fixing what wasn’t broken but just in need of a little TLC. Tender Loving Care. 

Foster Parents are temporary parents that take children in to their home until they can go back to their own home.  Their not there to hope or bank on the parents losing their parental rights, to jump right in and adopt.  CPS needs to understand the definition of Foster Care, and Foster Parent. I did find out that CPS gets a bonus for every child they take from a family and can adopt out so maybe that is the reason they take so many children from loving parents, $$$$$   How sad is that.  And what can we do about it?