{"id":44250,"date":"2019-08-20T09:49:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T13:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=44250"},"modified":"2019-08-20T09:50:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T13:50:11","slug":"did-you-know-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/08\/did-you-know-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Paul Waldmiller<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did you know that in America, there were approximately\n430,000 children that entered foster-care during 2017 and during that same\nyear, 70,000 parents had their parental rights-terminated? Were you also aware\nthat 88% of missing, sex-trafficked kids come from foster care?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The State of Florida ranks third in the U.S, for human\ntrafficking. Throughout America, as well as here in Florida, we spend billions of\nfederal and state taxpayer dollars every year to separate families. These\ntaxpayer dollars support thousands of judges, lawyers, guardians, law\nenforcement officers, DCF agents, court clerks and others–all in an effort to\nseparate children from their biological families. What if we took those same\ntax dollars and instead, use those same funds to help families, equipping them\nwith the educational tools they need to become better parents and or family\nmembers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some years ago, I was a group facilitator for a wonderful\nfamily-based educational organization called Every Person Involved with\nChildren. This organization had wonderful teaching tools, mostly through\ntheir educational booklets where parents were able to attend group sessions and\nhear from both professionals treating family dysfunctions as well as from\nevery-day parent\u2019s themselves. Through this program, parents had a chance\nto learn healthy parenting techniques from counselors as well as other parents\nwho had success in raising their children. At completion, none of the attending\nmoms and dads had lost their parental rights.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Too often, we see children used as chattel so others may\nprofit from troubled homes. Family law in America is now a $100 billion per\nyear industry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To keep your children and family from becoming another\nstatistic for Family Law, I suggest the following points of prevention;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1)      Always take time to\nlisten as well as talk with your children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2)      Spend quality time\nwith your children. This means no electronic devices such as cellphones!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3)      Be patient. In a culture where\nwe expect immediate results, this may be difficult, but kids need patient\nparents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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4)      Remember that kids\nhave stress too! Learn to deescalate rather than confront angry kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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