Social Services set up a camera in a couples bedroom to monitor them.
November 25th, 2008 | 194 wordcountTelegraph.co.uk: Social services ’set up CCTV camera in couple’s bedroom’.
According to the article the couple got the camera shut off ONLY while they were in bed together only after citing Human Rights Act which protects peoples rights to a private life.
A direct quote from the article: “The mother and father were forced to cite the Human Rights Act, which protects the right to a private life, before the social services team backed down and agreed to switch off the surveillance camera while they were in bed together.”
Also does anyone else notice that social services only agreed to shut the camera off while the couple was in bed together? The article goes more into how social services agree to only shut the cameras off at night so that the couple can enjoy their intimate privacy.
Is anyone else disturbed by this? Is anyone else reminded of 1984, where the characters had to have telescreens in their homes, which were a two-way television for the government to monitor you in your house.
Having cameras monitoring you in the privacy of your own home is apparently common practice in the UK…
I wonder when it will hit the United States.
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That is incredibly disturbing.
(The following is unrelated to the post, but more directed towards, say, Alex Jone’s negativity towards social services.)
It sucks though because my mom is a social worker for Allegheny County in Pittsburgh. And I know for a fact in Pittsburgh they will not take your child unless you are truly unfit to house them. They really try to work with the parents to keep their kids, they don’t WANT to put them in homes. I’m not really sure what it’s like in other counties and cities, but I know what it’s like in Pittsburgh.
My mom worked with this 24 year old chick that, for 17 years of her life was locked in a basement. Literally, 17 years locked in a basement, RAPED and abused by her father. One day she got PREGNANT and somehow got out. Had the kid, and my mom was working with her to help her be capable of supporting a child. Helped her get a job, the county helped to tutor her into intelligence. She was essentially retarded. No human contact, no education.
That’s only ONE of the thousands of stories I’ve heard.
Another one: This drug addicted woman (I think it was meth) had two kids. Claimed they were from the same father. One was white, the other was mixed. HM! Anyways. My mom worked with 2 gay guys that were orignally foster-caring the kids and helped them adopt. Stood up for them in court, etc.
Social services is a program we need, there are truly unfit parents out there in the world. But they should not be able to take your kid for any reason.
I think the stories you just told me were pretty related to the post. That girl locked in the basement is really disturbing… Reminds me of the Josef Fritzl case in Austria.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzl_case
I am torn when it comes to Social Services to be honest. I’ve seen kids put in bad homes where they are abused physically and sexually.
Then I’ve seen kids taken away for stupid reasons. When I was in high school they wanted to put me on anti-depression pills because I never went to class, and because -I- refused to take them they wanted to charge my mother with medical neglect and kept threatening to take me out of her house.
But then there are stories like the ones you just told me. I’m just afraid that Social Services is something that can be easily abused…
I’m sorry that happened to you, it’s pretty lame. I don’t believe any child should be forced onto medication if they don’t want it, but it seems as society progresses we turn to quick fixes and pills for all of our problems and think it’s the best solution for -everyone-.
I’ve heard of the Fritzl case, and I guarantee you there are HUNDREDS, if not thousands, of those cases in America every year. Maybe not for such an extensive period of time, but they’re there.
You’re right, social services are entirely capable of being abused. Forcing people to abide by regulations they shouldn’t have to.
My mom fought for some parents in court, telling the court that they -were- fit to raise the child, and other times had to fight against them. Every child received a case-worker, who was the advocate for the child and considered their best interests. That could go either way. You could have someone who believes in family, believes in keeping them together and trying to work with parents (like my mom) or goes crazy with power and tries to force their twisted views of reality on others.
It sucks, and it’s not a perfect system. There are definite instances where a child was hurt by being moved, and others where they were helped. =(
That is so scary that there are so many cases like that…
I think it should really be tempered with common sense. But it isn’t. Some people are over zealous. Some people use it to abuse the system. The whole thing needs to be reworked. Your mother seems like one of the good social workers though. Perhaps they need more like your mother. Why did she fight judges to keep families together though? What was the cases with those where they wanted to take children away for no good reason? See it’s things like THAT that get me worried.
Well, she was an advocate for the child. If she felt the child would be better served being in a home with their original parents, she would try to work that out. If she felt the parents incapable, she’d help to get the kid removed from the home.
Did you hear about the Nebraska Safe Haven law? The governor had to go out and BEG parents to not use the loophole in it. Essentially: Parents could drop off their kids at the hospital and release custody of them, no questions asked. The law was meant for pregnant teenagers and stuff, but it instead stated “Any minor may be able to” etc. Instead of saying “any new born child” or “any child under the age of” it said “any minor.” THOUSANDS of children was just dropped off at hospitals, and the parents can’t be charged with any sort of crime, because what they did was legal at the time.
OH! I forgot to add this was all done anonymously, no names attached to the kids dropped off.
LOL YEAH I HEARD OF THAT. That was HILARIOUS in my opinion. I mean, sad for the kids and all, etc etc etc blah blah blah /POLITICAL CORRECTNESS INSERTED HERE
Absolutely hilarious though. You would think after the kid reaches like… SIXTEEN… you want them or not. LOL.
Hahahah, yea. No, I laughed at it too, but it’s still incredibly fucked up.
Only in America…
Oh wait, this happens all the time in other countries hah