If Jesus Were Born Today

Though I know that no matter what age GOD allowed His only begotten Son to be born in He would ultimately protect HIM for the cause of cross yet this really makes one stop and think about how our idea of protecting children can really go wrong...





If Jesus Were Born Today


A frightening look at how Social Services would have 'interacted' with the Nativity



Child advocates would remove the child from the custody of his mother when they discovered she was shacking with a guy (not the child’s father) in a barn. In most jurisdictions that would constitute child neglect.
Of course, Mary would have an underpaid court appointed attorney to represent her in the dependent-neglect proceeding, and Joseph would be out of luck once it was determined that paternity could not be established within a reasonable degree of medical certainty through blood or DNA testing(97% probability that Joe was the dad is sufficient, but absent divine intervention, that couldn’thappen, hmmm?). He would be excluded from juvenile court as a stranger to the proceeding and investigated for possible sexual deviance (all those oxen and donkeys around), and he would be told that he had no standing to object since he was not the natural father of the child and was not yet married to Mary (by their own admissions they had not yet consummated their union).
The Division of Children and Family Services would ask the court to order Mary to take parenting classes, and the Court would order that homemaker services be provided as well, since obviously Mary can’t keep house properly (the place where the DHS workers found the child was kept remarkably like a barn). Mary would be allowed to have one visit with Jesus per week at the Centers for Youth
and Families. The visit would be one hour long, and supervised by a therapist since Jesus would no doubt be put in therapeutic foster care to prevent psychological damage resulting from the horrible lack of civilization to which he had been exposed at such a tender age.
At the eighteen month dispositional hearing, the court would consider terminating parental rights because of Mary’s refusal to bring a paternity suit against Jesus’ true biological father (or even to identify him to the satisfaction of the Court). The Court would be appalled at the life choices Mary would have made: she would have completed her marriage to Joseph (that suspected sexual deviant) and had more children by him, which was obviously contrary to Jesus’ best interest. Since Mary and Joseph had fled the jurisdiction with Jesus once to escape encounters with the authorities, they would determine that Mary and Joe had nefarious plans to abscond with the Ward of the State to Egypt again, where they would possibly engage in dangerous and illegal activities with him. Parental rights would be terminated, and Jesus would be put up for adoption.
He would be adopted by the Herods, a well-connected and politically powerful family, who have been searching for just such a child as Jesus. Of course, Jesus will die in the custody of his adoptive family, because that’s all they wanted him for in the first place. Social services will NOT have intervened prior to his death because the state social workers could never imagine someone as highly placed as the Herods exploiting children or torturing them to death. The political ramifications for the Herods would have been too severe. In all likelihood, the social service agencies would cover up the death as one occurring from accident, and Herod’s good name will be preserved.

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Forgiveness for the sinner

2 Corinthians 3:9-11 I wrote to you as I did to find out how far you would go in obeying me. When you forgive this man, I forgive him, too. And when I forgive him (for whatever is to be forgiven) I do so with Christs authority for your benifit so that satan will not outsmart us. For we are very familiar with his evil schemes.

Sociopaths are fundamentally different

ndamentally different

The truly scary thing about sociopaths is that they are fundamentally different from the rest of us. They do not want what we want. They do not value what we value.

Normal human beings want affection, cooperation and achievement. We want to care about others and contribute to life. Sociopaths want power, control and sex, and they’ll destroy anyone and anything to get what they want.

But sociopaths look like us and appear to act like us. That’s why they are so hard to identify. It’s also why people who have not experienced their manipulation up close and personal find it so difficult to believe us. The uninitiated—those lucky souls who have not been devastated by a sociopath—have yet to learn that there are people in the world for whom proclamations of love, truth and promises are nothing but tactics in a power game.

Everything changes

This is the bottom line: Dealing with a sociopath changes everything. Normal human courtesies do not apply. Social protocols do not apply. Rules do not apply. Contracts do not apply. Laws do not apply.

If we find that we are interacting with a sociopath, the best thing we can do is get the person out of our lives. When that is not possible, we need to be on mental red alert at all times and understand that anything the person says may be a lie. We need to know that for the sociopath, we are not a friend, or a lover, or a relative, or a co-worker. For a sociopath, all we are is a target.

Important progress for an alienated grandparent

Alienation goes much deeper than into just the hearts of parents as I'm sure everyone here knows. Extended family members feel the pain too and many child grow up and then grow old without ever knowing many extended family members..... .....pretty sickening in my opinion.
But here is some progress!!!! !!

State Supreme Court grants grandmother visitation rights
By Elizabeth Dinan
edinan@seacoastonli ne.com
June 04, 2009 7:48 PM
PORTSMOUTH -- Kathi Dufton had to go to the Supreme Court for the right to see two of her granddaughters.

"I want to hug them so badly," Dufton said Thursday, one day after the state's highest court ruled that keeping her apart from the girls who call her "grammy" would be "cruel and inhumane."

"The Court should be lauded for ruling so quickly and decisively," said attorney Justin Nadeau, who successfully argued the case before the Supreme Court a month ago.

According to the court's decision, Dufton, now a Newington mother of six and grandmother of eight, was 17 years old when she gave birth to a daughter and relinquished her parental rights by placing that daughter up for adoption.

When that daughter, Vicki Shepard, was 26, she reunited with her mother and for the next 13 years they "were very close," the court found. They vacationed together, visited every other weekend and Dufton attended the birth of her daughter's two daughters.

"It was like a hole in my heart had been filled," Dufton recalled.

Shepard was later diagnosed with cancer and when she died in March of 2005, Dufton was at her side, the court noted in its decision.

Two years later, the grandchildren' s father began denying Dufton visitation with the girls and she brought him to Superior Court. According to court records, the girls' father argued Dufton had no right to see them because she was not their natural grandmother. She gave up those rights when she placed Shepard for adoption, he argued.

The Superior Court initially sided with Dufton, but the ruling was reversed in favor of the father by the same judge. Nadeau immediately offered to take the case on appeal to the Supreme Court, said Dufton.

"He knew the situation, spent endless time on it and my only expense was for legal research," she said. "He's a remarkable young man and I love him to pieces."

On June 3 the Supreme Court reversed the lower court's ruling, finding Dufton is indeed the girls' "natural grandmother" and entitled to visitation.

"In a situation such as the present one, where the child's natural parent has died suddenly, the love and commitment of grandparents can be a source of security which lessons the trauma occasioned by the parent's death," the court wrote.

The case now goes back to the superior court, which is expected to revise its order and mandate visits between grandmother and grandchildren.

"It's going to be amazing," said Dufton, who has seen the girls only once in the past year.

"This is a huge victory for grandchildren who deserve every bit of love and nurturing they can receive from giving and caring grandparents, such as Kathleen Dufton," said Nadeau. "It was an honor to represent her."

http://www.seacoast online.com/ articles/ 20090604- NEWS-90604036