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Re: Hauppauge & Commack People please read
Posted by peanutbutter2
I am not saying that everyone holds this point of view; but I have heard plenty of people say an area "isn't nice," and they have no statistics to back it up. They simply base it on race.
I also don't think communities in Queens are comparable to ones in Long Island in terms of this discussion. Queens is incredibly diverse, and Long Island is incredibly segregated.
I can relate to this. And I base this on what people have said to me directly----not what they are reading about a community based on statistics.
I can also say that I highly doubt these people read ANYTHING of substance--if they even read at all.
As an aside though, I grew up in a very white area of NYS. I think there were maybe 5 black kids in my school and no Spanish kids that I can remember (I graduated in the early 90s). I am sure the area has since changed, and become a lot more diverse.
Interestingly, there has always been a lot of hatred against people who are poor and most of the people who are poor in that community are in fact white. I see it daily with people who still live there and what they write on FB ;).
In that particular area though, I don't think families have the same opportunities and resources we do here on Long Island and NYC, so they stay stuck in the cycle of poverty even longer.
Also, having been a social worker in both NYC as well as Long Island, I have always found Long Island clients to be a lot more "difficult" to deal with because of the strong sense of entitlement from most of the WHITE clients.
I absolutely feel that race plays a big part in what people expect to be given to them.
Many of the white clients I have worked with also suddenly found themselves in situations where they needed to depend on the system in some form, where clients who were not white had not necessarily been without the system in some form in their life (i.e. grew up with a single mom), lacked family support as an adult and/or were working at a blue collared job when they became disabled, so were grateful of whatever kind of assistance they could be given.
With my white clients, it was frequently what else can I get from the government in ADDITION to all the resources I already have in place for me since I am already pretty well-off financially, have a home, family support, support of friends and public figures, an education and know how to advocate for myself, private insurance, etc. BUT I worked and the system owes me now.
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Re: Hauppauge & Commack People please read
To the op, if you're interested I'd find out more info on this shelter.
I've worked with a few families while they were in shelters. One particular one that comes to mind is a converted hotel. Since each is a converted hotel room they are very small but they did have a small kitchenette. There were 2 kids and the mom living in a studio- looking space with the attached bath obv. There was a security window with a 24 hour guard there and everyone had to show I'd and sign in. However, the place wasn't the cleanest. This isn't so much of a reflection of the people living there as it is of the management. Like another poster said, I'd be more interested in finding out what company would be over seeing this shelter.
Also, like others have said, bedbugs can come from anywhere. My college (john jay) had them a few years back and there was no fabric in that building (it was the old shoe factory). I can understand your concern but also see both sides to this "argument".
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Yes, worry about the "the children" will effect your district instead of how these children have no place to call home and MAYBE a stable school environment is the one haven and warm meal they get all day. Maybe the education in a good district today is what will help them achieve tomorrow.
Can you imagine how these children feel, I would act at too if I were homeless and had no security as a small child.
EVEN if you get 50 new kids across Commack/Hauppauge the cost per child is not going to signicficantly impact your schools budget.
Present this however you would like, this is a plain old case of NIMBY and I find it shameful. I would more than welcome them if it were my district.
It has absolutely nothing to do with how the children will effect the community. It has everything to do with how a facility like this will.
It has everything to do with the fact that they are stuck in one room - a room with no cooking facilities or refrigerators.
It has nothing to do with cost either.
Chances are you do have homeless children in your district - as we did before this also. The difference is that you didn't KNOW they were homeless. They were able to blend into the community -as it should be. These poor kids are stuck on one bus together - you think they have any anonymity?
As I said in my prior post - I have no problem with homeless kids attending school with my children - I do have a problem with a facility like this.
It's very easy to say you would welcome it when you aren't the one dealing with lice or bedbugs. As much as these kids have a right to go to school, my kids also have a right to attend school in a clean, safe environment.
Anyway - I put this out there for people in the community who would like to come and gain more information - not to start a debate.
ok.....so the homeless people are going to make your kids environement unsafe and unclean?
I HIGHLY doubt the debate is about the "living conditions the homeless will have to endure and the lack of anonymity for the homeless children"
You cant say in one breath its bc you are concerned for the homeless and how it will make the children feel and in the next say its bc your children deserve a clean environment.
Ive been keeping up on this and the community should be ASHAMED of themselves.
This will bring down the value of the homes in the area for several reasons. Potentiial homeowners who are interested in the district will look at test scores and ratings of the schools in the area. Homeless children who have missed a great deal of school and have little home support will certainly struggle in school. Potential buyers will also look at the percentage of free lunch in the schools.
But even more so they will look at that facility and choose to buy else where.
Its no joke, these people in the school district have a right to be concerned. Its their life, their homes and their children. I'm sure they would gladly want to help these homeless families, but this is their life and neighborhood. Of course they are concerned.
So when you purchased your home you took no concern for the school district?
. Exactly. Right or wrong there are many people who will not want to purchAse a home in area with a homeless shelter nearby.This could bring housing prices down and as such is something that existing home owners need to worry about. I have a friend who has a beautiful home in an affluent neighborhood, but it is next to Muslim community center. It took months to sell and went for about $150,000 less than what a similar home would go for. I know someone else who would not buy an otherwise lovely home in a good neighborhood because it was across the street from a home for developmentally disabled adults. Point is that people do make decisions based on this kind of stuff and it something that occupants of a Neighborhood must be aware of.
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While some of you were sitting here ******** about the misfortune of other people affecting your kids and your home prices, some of us were dropping off. Clothes and food and bottled water at the shelter in question and meeting some of these adorable children and their appreciative parents. Live up there on your high horse. The rest of us will be teaching our children and those affected by the situation what compassion is.
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Posted by thisisme
While some of you were sitting here ******** about the misfortune of other people affecting your kids and your home prices, some of us were dropping off. Clothes and food and bottled water at the shelter in question and meeting some of these adorable children and their appreciative parents. Live up there on your high horse. The rest of us will be teaching our children and those affected by the situation what compassion is.
 
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I've never had lice
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Posted by thisisme
While some of you were sitting here ******** about the misfortune of other people affecting your kids and your home prices, some of us were dropping off. Clothes and food and bottled water at the shelter in question and meeting some of these adorable children and their appreciative parents. Live up there on your high horse. The rest of us will be teaching our children and those affected by the situation what compassion is.
. That is wonderful and a beautiful thing to do. Of course these people and their children deserve compassion and understanding ; however , reality is reality and people will get nervous if there is a big change in their area that might affect housing prices and way of life. It is only human.
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Hauppauge & Commack People please read
A homeless shelter was setup in our community and it was an absolute disaster. We had three burglaries that were perpetrated by an occupant of the home. There were always people wondering around day and night in the vicinity of the shelter. It was a nightmare. I would never want one anywhere near my kids or their schools. I don't care about being PC, I would fight to make sure it doesn't happen.
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I think the bottom line is, that there are pockets in most communities a lot of us are honestly not going to buy in.
But just because there may be a "bad" section in certain towns, that does not mean the whole community is rotten.
I'll put it out there:
I live in the Copiague School District, below Montauk Hwy, a stone's throw from Amityville HS and all of my neighbors I know personally are Irish-Italian and have lived here for either generations or are nice young families moving in. A few of my neighbors are older singles as well who were looking to downsize to a smaller home.
All of my neighbors are college educated and have decent jobs.
After the suggestion of our realtor, we opened our search and we bought here because we kept getting out-bidded on the homes we looked at in Nassau, that had less yard space and house and were twice as much and were not move-in ready AT.ALL.
Honestly, in retrospect, we also feel a lot more comfortable here and like we don't need to keep up with the Joneses which is the feel in some of the other towns West of me.
Come on, blast my area now, snobs. I can take it!!
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Ive been following this topic for days and I'm so confused.
First let me start off by saying I don't agree with the OPs thought process that a small number of homeless children are going to bring bugs and disease into an entire school district. I think that's been pretty well covered.
I'm really perplexed about how many posters jumped on board to defend the shelter though. Historically if a new poster asks about Longwood or Riverhead schools 99% of the replies will talk about scores and graduation statistics ( all very important I understand) but these are the some of the districts that are home to the larger homeless/transient population in Suffolk. Naturally their numbers suffer. The person asking will unequivocally be told to stay away because it's "bad"
Why is that the masses of LIFers can't be compassionate about the homeless families in these districts and others like them? Why cant people see if all communities share in providing a home for the homeless we would create more balance.
Does anyone remember the story about the homeless girl from Brentwood that graduated with perfect grades and won an important acedemics competition ( I don't remember what it was). She had teachers that believed in her. It truly takes a village sometimes with these kids.
I guess those of us that volunteer of work with this population or perhaps lived it ourselves have a different point of view.
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Posted by KellyFG
Why is that the masses of LIFers can't be compassionate about the homeless families in these districts and others like them? Why cant people see if all communities share in providing a home for the homeless we would create more balance.
Does anyone remember the story about the homeless girl from Brentwood that graduated with perfect grades and won an important acedemics competition ( I don't remember what it was). She had teachers that believed in her. It truly takes a village sometimes with these kids.
I guess those of us that volunteer of work with this population or perhaps lived it ourselves have a different point of view.
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Posted by KellyFG
I'm really perplexed about how many posters jumped on board to defend the shelter though. Historically if a new poster asks about Longwood or Riverhead schools 99% of the replies will talk about scores and graduation statistics ( all very important I understand) but these are the some of the districts that are home to the larger homeless/transient population in Suffolk. Naturally their numbers suffer. The person asking will unequivocally be told to stay away because it's "bad"
Why is that the masses of LIFers can't be compassionate about the homeless families in these districts and others like them? Why cant people see if all communities share in providing a home for the homeless we would create more balance.
Does anyone remember the story about the homeless girl from Brentwood that graduated with perfect grades and won an important acedemics competition ( I don't remember what it was). She had teachers that believed in her. It truly takes a village sometimes with these kids.
I guess those of us that volunteer of work with this population or perhaps lived it ourselves have a different point of view.
Because the majority of posters on this site are too busy being politically correct. It's easier to say "I wouldn't mind if a homeless shelter was built in my neighborhood" when it's NOT being built in their neighborhood.
In the real world people want to live in nice areas. No one says "ooooh this SD has low graduation rates, low test scores, a long history of budgets not passing, high crime rates and low property values; let's move THERE!!"
In the real world people want to live in nice homes, in nice areas where their nice child will get a quality education, be safe, and live a peaceful, quiet life. That comes at a cost, a very high cost and so no, no one wants their piece of the pie that they work hard for and pay dearly for disrupted or threatened. No one wants it in their very hard earned and expensive back yard. That is the ugly truth. People can pussyfoot around and blame bedbugs and lice but the bottom line is poverty = negative impact on the "nice" community and those living in said nice communities want to keep those communities "nice".
They will gladly volunteer at the shelter, they will donate to that shelter and many other charities, but they don't want it too close to home.
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Posted by HoneyBadger
Posted by KellyFG
I'm really perplexed about how many posters jumped on board to defend the shelter though. Historically if a new poster asks about Longwood or Riverhead schools 99% of the replies will talk about scores and graduation statistics ( all very important I understand) but these are the some of the districts that are home to the larger homeless/transient population in Suffolk. Naturally their numbers suffer. The person asking will unequivocally be told to stay away because it's "bad"
Why is that the masses of LIFers can't be compassionate about the homeless families in these districts and others like them? Why cant people see if all communities share in providing a home for the homeless we would create more balance.
Does anyone remember the story about the homeless girl from Brentwood that graduated with perfect grades and won an important acedemics competition ( I don't remember what it was). She had teachers that believed in her. It truly takes a village sometimes with these kids.
I guess those of us that volunteer of work with this population or perhaps lived it ourselves have a different point of view.
Because the majority of posters on this site are too busy being politically correct. It's easier to say "I wouldn't mind if a homeless shelter was built in my neighborhood" when it's NOT being built in their neighborhood.
In the real world people want to live in nice areas. No one says "ooooh this SD has low graduation rates, low test scores, a long history of budgets not passing, high crime rates and low property values; let's move THERE!!"
In the real world people want to live in nice homes, in nice areas where their nice child will get a quality education, be safe, and live a peaceful, quiet life. That comes at a cost, a very high cost and so no, no one wants their piece of the pie that they work hard for and pay dearly for disrupted or threatened. No one wants it in their very hard earned and expensive back yard. That is the ugly truth. People can pussyfoot around and blame bedbugs and lice but the bottom line is poverty = negative impact on the "nice" community and those living in said nice communities want to keep those communities "nice".
They will gladly volunteer at the shelter, they will donate to that shelter and many other charities, but they don't want it too close to home.
. this is exactly was I was trying to say in my previous post.
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A homeless shelter was setup in our community and it was an absolute disaster. We had three burglaries that were perpetrated by an occupant of the home. There were always people wondering around day and night in the vicinity of the shelter. It was a nightmare. I would never want one anywhere near my kids or their schools. I don't care about being PC, I would fight to make sure it doesn't happen.
Did those burglaries happen to your home 3 times or various homes? You say it "was"? How are things now? Is it still there or did you move?
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Posted by KellyFG
I'm really perplexed about how many posters jumped on board to defend the shelter though. Historically if a new poster asks about Longwood or Riverhead schools 99% of the replies will talk about scores and graduation statistics ( all very important I understand) but these are the some of the districts that are home to the larger homeless/transient population in Suffolk. Naturally their numbers suffer. The person asking will unequivocally be told to stay away because it's "bad"
Why is that the masses of LIFers can't be compassionate about the homeless families in these districts and others like them? Why cant people see if all communities share in providing a home for the homeless we would create more balance.
Does anyone remember the story about the homeless girl from Brentwood that graduated with perfect grades and won an important acedemics competition ( I don't remember what it was). She had teachers that believed in her. It truly takes a village sometimes with these kids.
I guess those of us that volunteer of work with this population or perhaps lived it ourselves have a different point of view.
Because the majority of posters on this site are too busy being politically correct. It's easier to say "I wouldn't mind if a homeless shelter was built in my neighborhood" when it's NOT being built in their neighborhood.
In the real world people want to live in nice areas. No one says "ooooh this SD has low graduation rates, low test scores, a long history of budgets not passing, high crime rates and low property values; let's move THERE!!"
In the real world people want to live in nice homes, in nice areas where their nice child will get a quality education, be safe, and live a peaceful, quiet life. That comes at a cost, a very high cost and so no, no one wants their piece of the pie that they work hard for and pay dearly for disrupted or threatened. No one wants it in their very hard earned and expensive back yard. That is the ugly truth. People can pussyfoot around and blame bedbugs and lice but the bottom line is poverty = negative impact on the "nice" community and those living in said nice communities want to keep those communities "nice".
They will gladly volunteer at the shelter, they will donate to that shelter and many other charities, but they don't want it too close to home.
Good answer.
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Posted by Goobster
Posted by HoneyBadger
Posted by KellyFG
I'm really perplexed about how many posters jumped on board to defend the shelter though. Historically if a new poster asks about Longwood or Riverhead schools 99% of the replies will talk about scores and graduation statistics ( all very important I understand) but these are the some of the districts that are home to the larger homeless/transient population in Suffolk. Naturally their numbers suffer. The person asking will unequivocally be told to stay away because it's "bad"
Why is that the masses of LIFers can't be compassionate about the homeless families in these districts and others like them? Why cant people see if all communities share in providing a home for the homeless we would create more balance.
Does anyone remember the story about the homeless girl from Brentwood that graduated with perfect grades and won an important acedemics competition ( I don't remember what it was). She had teachers that believed in her. It truly takes a village sometimes with these kids.
I guess those of us that volunteer of work with this population or perhaps lived it ourselves have a different point of view.
Because the majority of posters on this site are too busy being politically correct. It's easier to say "I wouldn't mind if a homeless shelter was built in my neighborhood" when it's NOT being built in their neighborhood.
In the real world people want to live in nice areas. No one says "ooooh this SD has low graduation rates, low test scores, a long history of budgets not passing, high crime rates and low property values; let's move THERE!!"
In the real world people want to live in nice homes, in nice areas where their nice child will get a quality education, be safe, and live a peaceful, quiet life. That comes at a cost, a very high cost and so no, no one wants their piece of the pie that they work hard for and pay dearly for disrupted or threatened. No one wants it in their very hard earned and expensive back yard. That is the ugly truth. People can pussyfoot around and blame bedbugs and lice but the bottom line is poverty = negative impact on the "nice" community and those living in said nice communities want to keep those communities "nice".
They will gladly volunteer at the shelter, they will donate to that shelter and many other charities, but they don't want it too close to home.
Good answer.
I live in a nice home and in a good area and I know there are homeless and domestic abuse shelters in the area.
If my choices were a seedy motel or a homeless shelter for families...I would take the shelter in a heartbeat.
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Riverhead is not home to one of the most transient /homeless populations. There is ONE family shelter in Riverhead, a men's shelter and a female shelter. I was the case manager at the female shelter for many years before i too a job with the county. There were the trailers that house the sex offenders by the jail but they are now gone. And that is southampton township.
Anyway the largest shelter populations (family shelters) are HELP Suffolk in Bellport, and some in brentwood, bayshore and Smithtown.
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Riverhead is not home to one of the most transient /homeless populations. There is ONE family shelter in Riverhead, a men's shelter and a female shelter. I was the case manager at the female shelter for many years before i too a job with the county. There were the trailers that house the sex offenders by the jail but they are now gone. And that is southampton township.
Anyway the largest shelter populations (family shelters) are HELP Suffolk in Bellport, and some in brentwood, bayshore and Smithtown.
I never said there was even one shelter in Riverhead, however there are several motels that have been converted to homeless shelters as well as boarding houses that each house multiple families that often move around.
I am not saying anything bad about Riverhead, I work there and my mom and several of my cousins live there. I happen to love Riverhead and I live in Longwood which is similar in many ways.
The fact is the school district gets ripped apart here along with several others because it's diverse and serves a partially transient population.
My point is not to criticize these disctricts, but to point out that all of a sudden LIF wants to embrace homeless kids but they don't want to live in Longwood, Riverhead, Brentwood or bay shore.
Go figure.
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Posted by KellyFG
Posted by MrsP6311
Riverhead is not home to one of the most transient /homeless populations. There is ONE family shelter in Riverhead, a men's shelter and a female shelter. I was the case manager at the female shelter for many years before i too a job with the county. There were the trailers that house the sex offenders by the jail but they are now gone. And that is southampton township.
Anyway the largest shelter populations (family shelters) are HELP Suffolk in Bellport, and some in brentwood, bayshore and Smithtown.
I never said there was even one shelter in Riverhead, however there are several motels that have been converted to homeless shelters as well as boarding houses that each house multiple families that often move around.
I am not saying anything bad about Riverhead, I work there and my mom and several of my cousins live there. I happen to love Riverhead and I live in Longwood which is similar in many ways.
The fact is the school district gets ripped apart here along with several others because it's diverse and serves a partially transient population.
My point is not to criticize these disctricts, but to point out that all of a sudden LIF wants to embrace homeless kids but they don't want to live in Longwood, Riverhead, Brentwood or bay shore.
Go figure.
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I'm clearly in the minority, but why is everyone attacking the OP and saying "shame on you"? She's sharing something that I, and many other people, would certainly want to know about if it was happening in my community. Sorry, I don't want to live near a homeless shelter. Flame away, but I'm entitled to my opinion.
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Posted by KellyFG
Posted by MrsP6311
Riverhead is not home to one of the most transient /homeless populations. There is ONE family shelter in Riverhead, a men's shelter and a female shelter. I was the case manager at the female shelter for many years before i too a job with the county. There were the trailers that house the sex offenders by the jail but they are now gone. And that is southampton township.
Anyway the largest shelter populations (family shelters) are HELP Suffolk in Bellport, and some in brentwood, bayshore and Smithtown.
I never said there was even one shelter in Riverhead, however there are several motels that have been converted to homeless shelters as well as boarding houses that each house multiple families that often move around.
I am not saying anything bad about Riverhead, I work there and my mom and several of my cousins live there. I happen to love Riverhead and I live in Longwood which is similar in many ways.
The fact is the school district gets ripped apart here along with several others because it's diverse and serves a partially transient population.
My point is not to criticize these disctricts, but to point out that all of a sudden LIF wants to embrace homeless kids but they don't want to live in Longwood, Riverhead, Brentwood or bay shore.
Go figure.
Sorry if I took offense I'll put it off as 37 weeks pregnant
Anyway just to clarify they do not house families at the motels in Riverhead that have been converted. I do not want to state publicly where I work but I do know this for a fact. As far as boarding houses go there arnt any that I am aware of that house families. DSS houses singles I'm boarding houses but families.
I think the transient population in both communities mentioned comes from permanent housing and people getting evicted. Although DSS might be paying the rent a out of the tenants of this per many housing make a side deal with te landlords to pay the extra and landlord only writes what DSS will pay on DSS paperwork. Riverhead has calverton hills and the doctors path apartments and millbrook and Roanoke apartments that all accept DSS have large DSS or section 8 (nothing wrong with either) populations and high eviction rates. Long wood has the artist lake apartments, Gordon heights and the strathmore ridge apartments feeding into it. All are highly populated by DSS clients. And these are NOT boarding houses they are living in it is permanent housing. DSS does have certain restrictions with how they can house a family, space wise, bedroom wise etc
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Someone needs to do some research on the McKinney Vento act!!!
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I am not really shocked about the complaining of the actual housing etc... Since it happens over and over. I am shocked at the direct hit of innocent children suggesting that these children will interrupt your children's life or be overcome by lice.
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MrsP thanks for your reply.
I don't want to keep quoting because I'm not trying to argue with you. I know this topic started out discussing an actual homeless shelter( likely funded by DSS) in hauppauge.
However I think we can all agree that not all homeless families are on dss for a variety of reasons. Many arent registered in the system as homeless.
I'm very aware of section 8 because I'm a former section 8 landlord. Some section 8 tenants are transient but certainly not all.
Perhaps our definitions of homeless are different.
To me the families that move in and out of the wading river motel or the swiss motel in Riverhead school district and the ridge motel in longwood are homeless.
I don't check their paperwork to see if they are on full DSS I just work with an organization that brings school supplies, Christmas gifts and other items to these families and others like them. My experience is that they don't stay in these facilities long, that is my definition of a homeless family, no set long term place to live.
As for the boarding houses in Riverhead, I doubt any of the families living in them are getting government checks but again that does not define their status as transient or homeless to me.
Message edited 10/6/2013 9:43:14 AM.
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Re: Hauppauge & Commack People please read
Posted by PrincessP
I am not really shocked about the complaining of the actual housing etc... Since it happens over and over. I am shocked at the direct hit of innocent children suggesting that these children will interrupt your children's life or be overcome by lice.
True. I am still in awe of the kind of moronic things people come up with about those less fortunate then them.
I can get on board with people being worried about drugs or crime, because everyone worries about drugs and crime.
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