Belly>> A couple of High profile Muslim Representatives blackening us, turned many against boat people.<<

China, I saw a group of economic boat refugees, was it the lot from yesterday, no, it was from the two boats the day before, or it might have been from the day before. Anyway they were being searched and frisked by our navy guys. The deprived refugees looked young, strong, unperturbed, and more for a match to the young Aussie sailors. I bet they got the lifejackets over the women and kids.

We should certainly take refugees; our society was built on it. But our refugees are sitting in a U.N. camp somewhere waiting for their number to come up Belly.

http://www.smh.com.au/wa-news/investigation-into-department-care-of-girl-on-life-support-wont-be-independent--20120821-24kfi.htmlLink returns us to the thread.
And questions us all.
sonofgloin I give no less concern to those children than the ones the thread is about.
A child is a child, Itoo think our refugees are waiting in camps.
But that we can stop the boats by taking in ALL of the reports contents
I commend the link, not as a stone thrown but as the question why?

That 20 month old child has died.
It was the reason this thread started.
A thread that did not get the interest I had hoped.
Fitting but sad too it the thread should end with that tragic event
I picture the funeral of a life hardly begun.
Now for another issue, we are in a temporary slump, new threads no as often as once.
I try but do not want to hog, but many posters are not putting threads up.
WHY
Maybe a reason we return time and again to boat people politics Catholic church is we need in put from our new contributors to freshen us up?

A Child Safety Officer told me if love was enough then there wouldn't be any children in care. In the real world love isn't enough and Foster carers choose to give these damaged kids a home.

A Foster child is not your normal every day child. They are often children from backgrounds of abuse and/ or neglect. They lack the social skills to make friends, they are behind in School, have learning difficulties, speech difficulties, behaviour problems, abusive behaviours, attention disorders, bad hygiene, sexualised behaviours, poor health, attachment disorders, mentally and/or emotionally delayed, and the list goes on and on. You can get School aged kids still in nappies with the vocabulary of a 1 year old. An angry child will hurt you, damage your property and be at risk to themselves. You can’t pick them up and carry them to their bedroom. There are strict rules of what you can and cannot do. It may take all day to calm them and they still might not be right the following day.

You have visits and meetings with Counsellors, Community visitors, CSO’s, Case workers, teachers etc. Your life is a strict routine. Foster children need routine. Sometimes you can’t have friends over because the child may be sexually inappropriate with them. You attend various training programs. You focus your life around helping this child. It’s not simply feed, clothe and send them to School. Carers do a lot of work and it’s not for money. You get very little information about the child but you'll treat them like family.

We always need more Carers. Go to an information session and find out for yourself.

mafo78 all very well, tell me then about this dead 20 month old.
Tell me of the young girl starved to death in her own filth, of the recent girl bashed to death.
Tell me why DOC,s failed them.
Your story of children in care OVERLOOKS every illness you spoke of, every problem, comes to much loved children in much loved familys, why the dead? why the bashed?
Who if not the carers?
I challenge you, to see this case every word is truth.
Girl 11 years old, gets in bad company, by 13 is sneaking out all night to have sex.
Full make up, a night comes family is requested by police to come and get her, at a hall 2am.
First time they confronted the truth.
Never knew it was taking place.
DOC,s enters fray, at family,s request, trying to help the girl.
DOC,s demands family trust the girl, and allow her full make up all the time.
Family badly broken says no.
Docs inspector removes the girl, to foster carer, HIS 23 YEAR OLD NEPHEW in an Aboriginal mission.
That young girl came home, briefly, 2 years after, she told horror story,s, may or may not have been true.
That inspector was dismissed later imprisoned for other things.
Girl is now 37 years old drug addicted former maybe still prostitute.
Her uncle who raised her? still remembers the young lass riding her horses he bought and grieves.
I am that uncle, tell me no fairy tales a thousand such story,s exist.

maf078

'We always need more Carers. Go to an information session and find out for yourself. '

thank you for your rational, compassionate and sensible post. It really is a breath of fresh air.