Meds and Neglect

[Ohiogal]

Earlier in the thread, she stated that the father refused to even buy the medication, because he doesn't believe that she needs it....when she clearly does, based on the disastrous drop in her grades and getting kicked off sports and cheerleading.

Actually you don't know for a fact that the drop in grades was based on the child not getting medication> It could be based on lots of things from drug and alcohol use by the child to not getting along with the parents. OP is assuming quite a bit based on information that we do not know HOW she acquired. And again legally it is NOT medical neglect.

 

[VeronicaLodge]

Earlier in the thread, she stated that the father refused to even buy the medication, because he doesn't believe that she needs it....when she clearly does, based on the disastrous drop in her grades and getting kicked off sports and cheerleading.

what i want to know is if she isnt involved with mother and father but is a teachers aid, how does she know all this information? how does she know what the child was like before she/he was put on the medicine, how does she know about the issues with the mother that led to father taking custody, how does she really know what is going on with the father regarding the medicine? how does she even know the mother and father didnt agree together to take to the child off the medicine? how does she know all this?

 

[222242]

Agreed. It is too much for her to know the intimacies - unless she has befriended the kid. But, if the kid was telling a paraprofessional who doesn't even work full time for the school(? forgot) it would have been far more appropriate for ks to send the kid to the school counselor and let the counselor speak to the appropriate parties - parents, children's services, school authorities. Knowing so much and seeming too eager to take control, rather than defer makes me suspect an alternate agenda.

 

[xylene]

As you should have heard by now , in some cases those kinds of meds can cause suicidal ideation , and has ultimately led in suicide.

What are you a scientologist?

Meds are no panacea, but your suggestion that a parent should pull his child off prescribed drugs because of some Dateline propaganda is utter bunk.

 

[BL]

What are you a scientologist?

Meds are no panacea, but your suggestion that a parent should pull his child off prescribed drugs because of some Dateline propaganda is utter bunk.

re-read what I typed .

No where did I suggest what you typed .

It not dateline propaganda , it's a fact " In some cases " .

Side effects : From the medical profession .

OG as well as I stated it is not medical neglect .

I also said CPS is misused by a parent and/or professional to have their own ends meant .

It has happened to me . " there were some concerns " .

Concerns don't rise to the level of reports to CPS .