But after months of investigation, the Montgomery County CPS has found the parents guilty of "unsubstantiated" child neglect. This means that a file on Alexander and Danielle Meitiv has been opened and will remain so for the next five years.
Mrs. Meitiv, who detailed the ordeal to The Washington Post in February, told the paper, "We don’t feel it was appropriate for an investigation to start, much less conclude that we are responsible for some form of child neglect." The Meitivs are planning an appeal.
For now, the family is promising to ignore the CPS ruling and continue raising their children as they see fit.
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This is incredibly stupid, intrusive, and so typical of liberal-think.
Pretty soon, we will be prisoners in our own homes.
5 years of dealing with one of the most idiotic agencies we have. MDE and MOSH still lead by a large margin.
How so when Maryland law allows children to stay home alone and babysit at 10?
Anyone else see Big Brother here?
Joe I love The Blazes article on this from their parenting guru. Its an awesome read that you may want to link to here.
back in 1984 I was 9 years old and would ride on my bike from the area of Leonards pond area right into Delmar to visit friends on a Saturday.
We would be all over Delmar playing at the park, in the woods or just riding our bikes.
Those are some of the most fond memories I have as being a kid.
The Department of Social Services can make one of three findings:
(1)- Indicated neglect (it happened), (2)- unsubstantiated (means what it says - unsubstantiated - but there may be some "smoke" there), and (3) - Ruled Out (it didn't happen). The parents in this case can appeal the finding to have it reviewed by an Administrative Law Judge, which thereafter can be appealed to the Circuit Court. The Unsubstantiated finding allows DSS to keep a record of the incident on their computer system for years to refer back to - in case there is another incident later. The findings of DSS are strictly confidential. Therefore, the parents must have released this info. Otherwise, someone can be prosecuted. The DSS does this type of investigation to keep a data base on people who should not be cleared for jobs with children or for adoption etc.
From the looks of the picture, the dad looks more neglected of food than anything else. The man needs to put some meat on his bones.
My mother could whistle! You could hear her a quarter mile away. Had to come home when she whistled or street lights came on. If not you got the belt and could not go out for a week(progressive lengths as seen fit). Best thing was government had no part in it.
11:56 you make it sound like DSS is some wonderful agency that protects our poor neglected children. the fact is they are an overbearing government agency with way to much power. this case is just one more instance of how they go after the so called easy cases and the cases they truly should be looking at they avoid.
Guess they'll be coming to dig my folks up.
The six of us had a lot of freedom to roam...actually able to wander the neighborhood but generally with our friends.
What jumps out about these kids is that no other kids in their neighborhood appear to be getting anything comparable in the way of getting a chance to learn some carefully limited self-reliance.
Hang in there parents!
Children on the Eastern Shore have DIED in the care of their caretakers under the watch of CPS and they are harassing what appear to be loving, devoted parents who simply let their kids walk through a park. My bet is, they know the neighborhood better than CPS does. Otherwise, I'd bet they would not do this.
When my kids were 10, not so long ago that it's one of those "well, life was safer then" things, they were far more mature than many adults I know.
11:48 you are right Big Brother is becoming a reality.More government knows best BS.When I was growing up I left the house on Saturday morning and went where ever I felt like and thats how it should now.
I remember walking from Forest lane to Asbury church when I was six. I rode my bike all all over Salisbury as I got older. It was great
The way some of these idiot kids cross the streets, THEY should be locked up, and the parents fined.
11:56 is a completely brainwashed idiot.
He has fallen hook line and sinker for the idea that nameless, faceless strangers have more control over your children than you.
Quote "regulations". Cite ""infractions".
All created by people who were NEVER elected but have the power to IMPRISON "we, the people" and/or take your children for doing something THEY think is "bad.
Conditioning citizens to believe they have no rights other than what these Nazi's dole out at their pleasure.
11:56 is totally conditioned.
Keep cheering.
Kids are a reflection of their parents. Stand around near a school when it lets out for the day. You can tell right away which kids are being taught anything at home and which are not.
There is something dark about this. The way some of these kids act today will continue to act that way as adults, if they make it to adulthood.
If they are not corrected now, they will be dead or in jail before they hit 30. I'm being generous there. A lot of them won't see 25, unless it's 25 to life.
This just blows my mind. I know things are different now than when I was a kid but, wow. When I was ten I could go down the street about a quarter of a mile to play with two different households of kids that lived next door to each other. I had to be home at dark also. By the time I was 12 I rode my bike six miles to Salisbury whenever I wanted to go swimming or go to the store.
And yes I know that strangers can present danger to kids but we were taught that and taught not to let strangers get close enough to get their hands on us. I'm not naive enough to believe that we were "totally safe" but to be charged with neglect for letting your children be outside and walk home from a park by themselves.
It doesn't seem to me that parents have any rights anymore. The government will seize your kids if THEY don't agree with the medical care that you provide your children with. The government decides what your children will eat in schools now and if they packed a lunch from home and the "nutrition police" don't agree with it, the child can't eat it. You can't yell at a child much any more. Emotional abuse. You definitely can't spank a child anymore. Physical abuse. You can't send a child outside to play unattended anymore. Neglect. Heck, you can't boot them out of the house at eighteen anymore and you have to support them forever anymore according to the government.
Maybe they ought to just mass produce kids themselves. Oh, yeah, they already do that.
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