News Every Child Needs a Mother and a Father
Three year-old Marcus Fiesel was placed in a foster home—and luckily for Marcus, he had opposite-sex foster parents. Only a foster mother and a foster father, you see, can provide a young boy with gender-appropriate role models he needs. Placing Marcus with a same-sex couple would amount to “state sanctioned child abuse,” according to religious conservatives.
So how’s Marcus doing in the home of his opposite-sex foster parents? Not as well as you might hope.
The foster parents of Marcus Fiesel, a 3-year-old boy, have been charged with involuntary manslaughter, according to WKRC Local 12.Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph Deters, Sheriff Simon Leis, Jr and Clermont County Prosecutor Donald White held a news conference at 3 p.m. to announce the arrest of David and Liz Carroll, Marcus Fiesel’s foster parents. They are charged with involuntary manslaughter, but more serious charges are expected.
Deters said David and Liz Carroll placed Marcus in a closet for two days, before going to a family reunion in Williamsburg, Ky. Aug. 4. When they returned, he was dead.
David Carroll is accused of burning the boy’s body in Brown County…. The Clermont County Children’s Services has taken charge of the Carroll’s four children.
People get upset when I post these stories—and people should, as they’re pretty fucking upsetting. As a parent and a human being, I take no pleasure in reading these stories. Frankly, they freak the hell out of me—it’s impossible to read about a child suffering without imagining your own child suffering. So why post ‘em? Blogger Pam Spaulding has been posting similar tales of horrific hetero child abuse over at Pam’s House Blend. Says Pam…
None of these horrifying cases has anything to do with heterosexuality, of course. But there is no call to regulate the rights of straight folks to have children based on the fact that some heterosexuals, clearly do not deserve to be anywhere near a child. One cannot judge a person’s character or ability to care for and love a child based on orientation alone, but that’s exactly what goes on in many states where the rights of gays and lesbians are constantly under attack when it comes to their ability to adopt of foster children who need loving homes.
I'll refrain from making some sort of tasteless "closet" pun here. Instead I'll suggest that you and Schmader make a new blog for all child abuse related topics. Sorta like how you kicked all the music posts over to line out so the rest of us didn't have to read them.