Tennessee: “Bath Salts” not a good idea…
The Cookeville Herald-Citizen, a newspaper from Cookeville, Tennessee, issued two articles about parents using bath salts – apparently a new kind of drug.
Parents, please! Drugs and parenting don’t mix! Please stop! For your KIDS, please stop!
How can I, as a family rights advocate, help you, if you will not help yourselves?
No more drugs of any kind — okay? Your kids are so much more important.
Anyhow, as I was saying, “bath salts” are being called a type of “legal ecstasy” … though some states are quickly passing laws against the drug. And for good reason. I mean, take a look at these articles! Parents show up at the hospital, one man naked, having delusions about snakes, another man having delusions of being chased, spraying pepper-spray… children being neglected, probably even pepper-sprayed too.
Articles:
Crossville woman charged with child abuse after reported ‘bath salts’ use
Pepper spray leads to child abuse charges
Please, people, do not expect FightCPS to be able to help you out of your legal problems if you’re going to do something as crazy as using drugs when you’re supposed to be taking care of your children. I don’t say this because I think you’re not a good person but only because I want everyone to put their kids first and that means not using any type of drugs, unless prescribed by a doctor. I would not ask you to do something I myself did not do. I was a parent of minor-children for 34 years, and during that time did not use street drugs, and never once was drunk either. Not once.
Why give CPS a reason for taking your children away? Life is hard enough and full of unexpected problems, without adding drugs which are not something you need when you’ve got children to take care of.
One of my early experiences as a family rights advocate was with a woman whose infant was taken due to a fake drug test. The “evidence” was lost but the social worker proceeded with the case as if there was real evidence against this woman. Unfortunately, it became apparent during the course of my involvement with the woman that she really was using drugs… yet expected me to be able to help save her child from foster care.
It doesn’t work that way!
I can’t work miracles for parents who won’t stop using drugs. All these legal documents and strategies for gaining traction in juvenile court can’t work miracles for parents who won’t stop using drugs. And just because a drug is technically legal, like “bath salts”, it doesn’t mean that there’s any good reason for using it when you’ve got kids to take care of.
So, honestly I do feel sorry for the parents in these cases, in the articles I linked to… because now they’ll have to deal with the unconstitutional and unjust juvenile courtrooms, and a very destructive child welfare system. But I don’t respect what they did to get into the situation.
I wish there was something we could do to stop parents from thinking they can use any drug they want and still be able to be parents. Get to them in advance, you know what I mean? But sadly people aren’t listening, and they tend to believe it (CPS) will never happen to them. Until it does.
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