Should your children be taken from you if
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Around here the code officer would condemn the house for either of those conditions and not allow anyone to live there until it was corrected.
Should you be able to live in a home you own on land you own that doesn't have running water and you choose to only heat to 55*?
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Im sure thats a different question than what you can subject minor children too. But the amish dont seem to have a problem with it. Here its not so much as the temp but if theres a working heating system and water for sanitation.
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Adults living on their own, W/O dependent children, can keep their home at whatever temp they feel like. However, when children are involved the equation changes dramatically. Especially if such child or children complain about it. HINT: Schools are mandatory reporters to Social Service, and or police. Not sure about CT but can't imagine that the laws are much different there than in NY. And, I can only paraphrase but in NY a person is guilty of endangering the welfare of a child when he or she engages in conduct that endangers the physical, moral or mental welfare of a child. And after 25 yrs in law enforcement I can pretty much confirm that subjecting any child to live in such conditions,( a house kept at 55*) meets the requirements of said statute. And having no running water & an open outhouse would only enhance all charges.
No child today deserves to live like that!!!!!!!!!!!
JIM
No child today deserves to live like that!!!!!!!!!!!
JIM
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He never mentioned “minor” children as of your post, only “children”. No age mentioned of the family or the children.
Are we going speculate age?
If the context was minor children, then specify it.
That’s why I said get to the point. The way the questions were presented there was/is too many unknown variables to speculate.
Give all the details, then ask the question. Don’t make me assume…
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Bill, if the kids were removed then obviously they were minors, and had been subjected to this brutal cold snap. Most likely the school caught on and called SS.
Hopefully those kids aren't shivering now.
Jim
Hopefully those kids aren't shivering now.
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My wife and I had to go thru Foster Parenting classes because we needed to adopt a grandchild. Turns out that we got primary custody so we didn't have to go that route. In the fostering classes there were specific conditions that needed to be met. Believe it or not, the child's bedroom could not even be in a basement, finished or otherwise.
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What temp is the average home kept at in Alaska? Many rural communities do not have running water. My aunt's sister had no running water when they moved there. With a.baby. No wells. Have.to install water tanks. Not sure about septic.
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I'd like to know the OP's opinion when questions like these are asked. I feel like its a police interview otherwise, lol
Interesting about the basement Lightning. Coalder, I can only imagine what you saw in all those years.
My answer would have to be it depends. Too many variables.
Waytomany, yep, lots of people live like that there. People make livings hauling water to people. People that are lucky enough to have driveways often haul fuel oil in the summer and all the other supplies. Would be nice living in the country there if you started doing it when young.
Interesting about the basement Lightning. Coalder, I can only imagine what you saw in all those years.
My answer would have to be it depends. Too many variables.
Waytomany, yep, lots of people live like that there. People make livings hauling water to people. People that are lucky enough to have driveways often haul fuel oil in the summer and all the other supplies. Would be nice living in the country there if you started doing it when young.
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Yes this guy asks all types of strange almost rhetorical questions without any context then answers questions by asking another question.Hoytman wrote: ↑Fri. Feb. 03, 2023 6:00 pmHe never mentioned “minor” children as of your post, only “children”. No age mentioned of the family or the children.
Are we going speculate age?
If the context was minor children, then specify it.
That’s why I said get to the point. The way the questions were presented there was/is too many unknown variables to speculate.
Give all the details, then ask the question. Don’t make me assume…