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Okay, right up front, Brody's Blog led me to this link, thank you good sir!!!
I read these things and wonder if this is news about some alien planet. The largest house in California just sold for 72 million dollars, we waste that much every day in the Middle East, and in New York homeless LGBT children are ignored.
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/06/on_the_streets.html
If a parent takes a child and physically abuses them the police are all over it. If a parent throws a child out on the street for being gay it is ignored. We are talking about 13 and 14 year old kids forced out on the street.
From personal experience I had a young student of mine tell me of a boy who was thrown out on the street by his father because he was gay. This was in North Carolina, a state not known for it's sensitive handling of gay people. I had the student arrange to have the boy meet me at a McDonalds near his father's house, and after we met I called the police.
I told the police what had happened, the kid was 13 and all they said was that they would send child services to pick him up. I said don't bother, I was going to go beat the crap out of the father and that they could meet me there.
The police beat me to the house, I had a stop to make first. When I arrived there were two police cars waiting and the father was locked in the house. A policeman asked me if I had issued a threat against the father, I said I had. He said he would have to arrest me, and I said fine. But I told the man he might want to ask the passenger in my car what she plans to do about the boy.
My passenger was Judge Sharon ******* of the Juvenile Court, someone I had worked with in other cases. Worked with so much in fact that I had her home telephone number, it pays to have friends like her. The boy was placed in foster care, the father was issued a summons to appear and failed, he was arrested, lost his job and had the opportunity to read about himself in the newspapers.
It rarely happens like that...very rarely. I would encourage any underage child who is thrown out on the street to claim sexual abuse by the offending parent. I don't care if it's true, the laws are inadequate. Something has to get their attention. >
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. (Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626)
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