I would like to comment on this further.  I love what you said about 
bureaucracies established for child abuse having to keep themselves in 
a job.  This is quite obviously true, but I've never heard it put so 
well.
Secondly, I'd like to talk to you about something else - the other 
people that are effected.  When someone is put in jail falsely, there 
family also suffers.  When my husband was put in by his ex after 
marrying another lady, she came out of remission from leukhemia, which 
eventually killed her.  Is this coincidence?  I don't think so.
I married him almost ten YEARS after he had been imprisoned for six 
months for this and then stuck in therapy for some time afterwards - 
brainwashing more like - and it causes serious problems for us in the 
early days of our relationship.  You can believe that this makes a 
person suspicious of people and cold, unable to express feelings.
It's not like this man is ever going to be free of it.  He was effected
just as badly by being falsely accused as any true survivor of child 
abuse was - including PTSD to some extent.
By the way, I studied psychology in college - I am NOT just throwing 
these terms around.
As a result I have been effected by his false accusation, as has his 
late former wife.  
In his brother's case, my brother-in-law's wife lost HER kids too when 
DSS took them away before he was ever convicted - and that has changed 
her life forever.
So if someone is put in jail or house arrest or whatever for this, it's
not just something that effects only them for a year or five or 
whatever.
It effects everyone.
And if the U N convention on the rights of the child, which Bill 
Clinton just signed, gets passed by the senate, there is going to be a 
lot more of this as parents will be legally forbidden to stop kids from
associating with anyone they please - even fellow gang members .  They 
will also be allowed to read anything they like - even pornography. 
They can also join any religion they want - even Satanism.
It's a truly great bill and will establish an INTERNATIONAL child abuse
bureaucracy much as what you described - one that would find something 
to call abuse  in almost every family and take our kids out of our 
hands.
London is already facing fines in the world court over it and so is 
france.
In a way, this may be good.  When just about everybody and their 
brother are falsely accused of child abuse, maybe people will wake up 
and listen.
That may be what it takes.
I get angry about it because as a survivor of some real child abuse - 
including some with sexual overtones - I think that all this outcry is 
eventually going to make it hard for anyone to believe those of us who 
are telling the truth.
--- TriToss (tm) Professional 1.0 - (Unregistered)
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