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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Billybob" data-source="post: 2655965" data-attributes="member: 1294">I haven't said anything about morals at all, I draw no moral distinctions between pot and alcohol do you? In your own words below"So they don't remove the child from the home and there's a medical emergency. Stoned parent attempts to drive to the ER and the kid is killed in the wreck along the way. You want to be the one solely responsible for your child instead of DHS, then you should be responsible and not get stoned every night". Now please explain how that statement would be different if you replaced stoned with drunk.As to "whether someone in immediate custody of the child is capable of handling any of that child's needs", since Texas continues to knowingly put children in dangerous situations where they are abused and die how can they be considered more fit to have custody of a child than a parent who smokes pot when no harm has occurred? Do you contend the standards should be different between parents and the state?As to the babysitter, no I wouldn't hire a pothead kid but I will also not defend or excuse the actions of a irresponsible system with a long history of failures they will not correct or be held accountable for.Would it be a crime to hire a pothead babysitter, child endangerment? Then why isn't it a crime to put kids into other dangers like placement with criminal foster parent or a dangerous foster home like the one where a person had already been found to neglect kids?</blockquote>

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