bjre View Member Profile Feb 28 2009, 04:43 AM Post #1 Group: Members Posts: 277 Joined: 8-February 09 Member No.: 4680
CAS is more harmful to children than physical discipline by parents, 90 kids die in care of CAS
Physical punishment is a popular method widely used by parents for thousands of years everywhere in the world. Some of the people cite the disadvantage of it. So the study comes. Politicians find the topic can bring them vote, Crown find it can bring more easy cases to justice system. CAS (Children’s care) find it can bring them a industry level income. So the legislation comes after media wide reported a few cases to grant CAS to watch people and search for case. Now there are nearly 30,000 kids are in care by CAS in Ontario, one out of 100 kids. This brings CAS more than $1.2 billion a year, that is $100 from everybody every year through tax. Many kids are separated from their parents by CAS. Many families were run out of their money during the court process, many families were destroyed, may kids become without parents or with single parent.
A recent report shows 90 kids were die in the care of CAS in Ontario. The death rate is one out of every 300 kids die yearly in care of CAS include high rate of suicide, homicide, and accidental death.
http://www.thestar.com/article/591523
A report from BC shows kids in care of CAS has only 24% can graduate from high school, while 36% end up in correction system.
http://www.lawsociety.bc.ca/publications_f...blic-forum.html
From the statistics, we can see it is very clear CAS does not make child grow well.
Why children are taken into care by CAS, it is very often because parents want to physical discipline kids. Parents were educating kids. Let’s suppose the physical discipline is not good, what can be the solution, ask help from CAS? If kids get a small wound from discipline, they will get a lifetime great hurt from CAS.
Is the physical discipline real evil? There are studies on that:
“Nonabusive Physical Punishment and Child Behavior among African-American Children: A Systematic Review”
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender...mp;blobtype=pdf
“UC Berkeley study finds no lasting harm among adolescents from moderate spanking earlier in childhood”
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/release...8/24_spank.html
However these serious studies were strongly argued by others who can take money from the industry such as CAS or who can get benefit from that or who did not make serious study based on real statistics. Actually there are many such studies in 1970s. However, we cannot find most of them from internet because the internet is not popular at that time.
Inadequate use of physical punishment is not correct and may lead to harm, however, this method should not be ban because of a few real abuse cases. Just like when we heard there are traffic accident on the road, shall we ban all the express way, all the highway and all the road, or shall we ban all the cars, airplanes? We know electricity can be dangerous to people, shall we ban it? So the correct manor is study how to use physical discipline and in which case it is harmful and educate parents instead of bully on them and use punishment to parents first.
Parents do physical discipline is with their best hope to children, with love, and with responsibility, while CAS does their business with a standard procedure like robot with no love, no consideration of children’s well being, and children’s future.
The truth is CAS is the real evil to children, not the physical discipline.