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I don't know about the rest of you but I am really disturbed by the Polygamist Cult in Texas. I first heard about it Thursday while on the behavioral floor during clinical's. One of my patients was obsessed with it and when I turned and started watching the TV in the common room I was blown away. It was a topic of choice. They had been following the case since it happened, and had to get approval to keep the channel on CNN because the Dr. felt it was damaging to the group.
I read this article this morning and thought it was interesting...
More than 400 children taken from a polygamous sect's ranch will undergo DNA testing this week, an attempt to determine who their parents are and if any sexual abuse took place......
Officials say family relationships in the sect can be confusing to outsiders because the children of more than one wife live in the same household.
The children identify all the women in the house as their mothers, and if a father leaves the community, children and mothers are reassigned to another man, a child welfare investigator testified during a hearing last week.......
The custody case is one of the nation's largest and most complicated. The ruling Friday capped two days of testimony that sometimes became disorderly as hundreds of lawyers for children and parents competed to defend their clients in two rooms linked by a video feed.
The children, including 130 children younger than 4 years and two dozen adolescent boys, will receive individual hearings before June 5.
Law enforcement officers raided the Yearning For Zion Ranch on April 3. The raid was prompted by calls made to a family violence shelter, purportedly by a 16-year-old girl who said her 50-year-old husband beat and raped her. That girl has never been identified.
And this morning on the today show, they were interviewing a man from Texas that is watching/helping to take care of the children and he said that the children were doing good and they were trying to keep them busy with games that they had never played before. And that they are moving them into group foster homes, where some of the older boys have already been placed. They are going to try to put them in places where they won't be separated not to upset the children any more than what they have already done.
I don't know if I agree with that. I think that these children are going to need emotional support after what they have went through and are going to go through. I think it will be hard to give them that at a group place. I understand what the courts are going through and confused as to what to do. There hasn't been anything like this before and do not know exactly what is the best for the children.
Topic #2
A 5.2-magnitude earthquake that appeared to rival the strongest recorded in the region rocked people up to 450 miles away early today, surprising residents unaccustomed to such a powerful Midwest temblor.
Also this week, early Friday morning, at around 5:36 am the earthquake in Illinois (5.2) traveled down the fault line and stopped in my area (2.0). I couldn't believe it when I heard that. Nor could some of my friends when I called and asked them if they had felt the earthquake as well. Most of them hadn't even heard about it or knew that we lived on a fault line.
I've known for years that KY is on a dormant fault line but well it's dormant. We've had tremors once when I was like six or something like that but that's it. So this is a pretty big deal to us since, we never have anything like this happen.
So now to my funny story...I live really close to the train tracks, on both sides of the OH river. The river is behind me were the N&O trains run (WV side), and one st. in front of me where the CSX trains run (KY side). So Emma had spring pictures friday, and I had set my clock at 3:30am for 6:20 am so we could have time to do her hair and when the earthquake happened I thought it was one of those times when the trains were running both in front and behind me and which caused the house to shake some. And I rolled over and went back to sleep. XD And then at 7:20am I woke up late because my alarm clock had shook off of my computer desk and didn't go off. I didn't know it was because of an earthquake, I was ranting all day about trains because I thought it was because of them. When I told my parents later that night, they didn't believe me and I was like are you serious...so I had to prove it to them that it was a real earthquake.
A lady in my clinical group actually got out of bed and checked the front door because it sounded like someone was beating her door in. Even her husband and two grandkids that she is raising got up because they heard it.
It's just strange for us. I guess if you live somewhere where it happens it's not that big of a deal but where I've never had to deal with an earthquake I find it to be a huge deal. I'm not scared or anything, actually I find it funny but if it had been a huge earthquake I wouldn't be finding it funny.
Okay enough of the pointless ramble. I've gotta go study some. I have check offs this Thursday and Friday and need to write a script for one of them. Blah...it's a never ending battle. But good news is, my final is May 6th and I only have 7 or 8 more days of class left. Three of which is tests that I have to pass. So I won't be updating much unless I get really stressed out.
I read this article this morning and thought it was interesting...
Officials say family relationships in the sect can be confusing to outsiders because the children of more than one wife live in the same household.
The children identify all the women in the house as their mothers, and if a father leaves the community, children and mothers are reassigned to another man, a child welfare investigator testified during a hearing last week.......
The custody case is one of the nation's largest and most complicated. The ruling Friday capped two days of testimony that sometimes became disorderly as hundreds of lawyers for children and parents competed to defend their clients in two rooms linked by a video feed.
The children, including 130 children younger than 4 years and two dozen adolescent boys, will receive individual hearings before June 5.
Law enforcement officers raided the Yearning For Zion Ranch on April 3. The raid was prompted by calls made to a family violence shelter, purportedly by a 16-year-old girl who said her 50-year-old husband beat and raped her. That girl has never been identified.
And this morning on the today show, they were interviewing a man from Texas that is watching/helping to take care of the children and he said that the children were doing good and they were trying to keep them busy with games that they had never played before. And that they are moving them into group foster homes, where some of the older boys have already been placed. They are going to try to put them in places where they won't be separated not to upset the children any more than what they have already done.
I don't know if I agree with that. I think that these children are going to need emotional support after what they have went through and are going to go through. I think it will be hard to give them that at a group place. I understand what the courts are going through and confused as to what to do. There hasn't been anything like this before and do not know exactly what is the best for the children.
Topic #2
A 5.2-magnitude earthquake that appeared to rival the strongest recorded in the region rocked people up to 450 miles away early today, surprising residents unaccustomed to such a powerful Midwest temblor.
Also this week, early Friday morning, at around 5:36 am the earthquake in Illinois (5.2) traveled down the fault line and stopped in my area (2.0). I couldn't believe it when I heard that. Nor could some of my friends when I called and asked them if they had felt the earthquake as well. Most of them hadn't even heard about it or knew that we lived on a fault line.
I've known for years that KY is on a dormant fault line but well it's dormant. We've had tremors once when I was like six or something like that but that's it. So this is a pretty big deal to us since, we never have anything like this happen.
So now to my funny story...I live really close to the train tracks, on both sides of the OH river. The river is behind me were the N&O trains run (WV side), and one st. in front of me where the CSX trains run (KY side). So Emma had spring pictures friday, and I had set my clock at 3:30am for 6:20 am so we could have time to do her hair and when the earthquake happened I thought it was one of those times when the trains were running both in front and behind me and which caused the house to shake some. And I rolled over and went back to sleep. XD And then at 7:20am I woke up late because my alarm clock had shook off of my computer desk and didn't go off. I didn't know it was because of an earthquake, I was ranting all day about trains because I thought it was because of them. When I told my parents later that night, they didn't believe me and I was like are you serious...so I had to prove it to them that it was a real earthquake.
A lady in my clinical group actually got out of bed and checked the front door because it sounded like someone was beating her door in. Even her husband and two grandkids that she is raising got up because they heard it.
It's just strange for us. I guess if you live somewhere where it happens it's not that big of a deal but where I've never had to deal with an earthquake I find it to be a huge deal. I'm not scared or anything, actually I find it funny but if it had been a huge earthquake I wouldn't be finding it funny.
Okay enough of the pointless ramble. I've gotta go study some. I have check offs this Thursday and Friday and need to write a script for one of them. Blah...it's a never ending battle. But good news is, my final is May 6th and I only have 7 or 8 more days of class left. Three of which is tests that I have to pass. So I won't be updating much unless I get really stressed out.