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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

“Mike is an Iraq war veteran, Kitty is a former paraprofessional for special needs children, and together they run a small business,”

What listed here makes these people qualified to take in foster children? I would argue that being a war veteran is more red flag than green. Especially if they are a fundamentalist Christian person of any sect, because there’s a lot of trauma involved and the religious tend to vilify secular and effective counseling and run toward religious prayer. He may be well adjusted, as I know they can be since my hubs is also an Gulf War vet who does not have issues related to it, but being a war vet is not a qualification for raising children.

Paraprofessionals sounds like they would be uniquely qualified for being foster parents, but they often do not have education and training requirements. They are not required to have a degree in teaching or special ed training. She does have experience with children though and I’ll give her that. But I question why she’s a former Paraprofessional considering her stated biases. Children who require special education considerations, especially those on the autism spectrum, have a higher rate of being LGBT than average. It’s possible, but I only have a speculation and not accusing her, that she left the job because she was required to be kind to them despite them being LGBT. Maybe a little accusing because she’s expressed this exact sentiment, but I can’t say the school or schools she worked for noticed anything. Anyway, this qualification only says she has been around children with difficulties.

Running a business isn’t a quality for much of anything. There’s no training required. I mean, Mike Lindell runs a business but I wouldn’t leave a plant in his care, let alone a child.

So please tell me how their qualifications are enough to make them good candidates for foster care when they’re willingly admitting to being a threat to a population of children more likely to be in their care.

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oraxx's avatar

The very religious are always very quick to claim they're being persecuted, and no group would be quicker to persecute others, given the opportunity. The Burkes are what you get when you delegate your thinking to others, in this case the Catholic Church. The folks who didn't have a problem with Nazis.

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