Can the neighborhood we live in be considered "child endangerment?"

[Bali Hai]

She is an idiot. I do juvenile law (dependency, neglect and abuse) and live in a Rust Belt city. It is NOT child endangerment.

Yes, but any reason to divorce is a good reason now-a-days.

 

[single317dad]

So, single317dad... Would YOU move your kid into inner city Detroit?

Yeah, me either.

Voluntarily, in my current situation? No. But that's not to say I NEVER would. I would strongly prefer not to.

It's the home itself that makes a dangerous situation for a child. I've lived in every kind of environment, rural, urban, suburban, and there are good and bad places to raise children in each of those. There are plenty of meth labs out in the country, for example. Raising your child in a meth lab is a good way to lose custody. Simply living in the same neighborhood is not. Same goes for the city.

 

[Bali Hai]

Voluntarily, in my current situation? No. But that's not to say I NEVER would. I would strongly prefer not to.

It's the home itself that makes a dangerous situation for a child. I've lived in every kind of environment, rural, urban, suburban, and there are good and places to raise children in each of those. There are plenty of meth labs out in the country, for example. Raising your child in a meth lab is a good way to lose custody. Simply living in the same neighborhood is not. Same goes for the city.

I wouldn't call those every kind of enviornment. For instance have you lived in the jungle, at the base of a volcano or in the Asmat mangrove swamps of Papua New Guinea?

 

[LdiJ]

Ah... well, I used that word less accurately than I should have... sorry.

It's a RustBelt city with a lot of vacant/abandoned housing. Less displacement and more young individuals/families interested in rebuilding and revitalizing. Been year 4 years, great relationships with neighbors new and old. No one is being driven out, more like new people moving in and filling up abandoned and neglected properties.


Anyway - any more thoughts on the legal question?

By any chance did anything happen in your neighborhood to your wife or that scared your wife?

 

[Isis1]

By any chance did anything happen in your neighborhood to your wife or that scared your wife?

i was about to ask this same question. i live in a decent neighborhood. upperclass? no. but decent neighbors and i let my kids play outside while keeping an ear on them.

a few years back....we had a killer on the loose. 2 houses and 3 dead people. the closest, the house next door. yeah, i was paranoid until the guy was caught. my kids were playing outside while a man walked up into the neighbor's house, clocked the neighbor in the head where he bleed to death while his wife lay sleeping in the bedroom. does that make my neighborhood dangerous....not any more dangerous than the locked community they are building with new condos 2 miles away.

but your wife might have a valid fear.

 

[Bali Hai]

By any chance did anything happen in your neighborhood to your wife or that scared your wife?

I'd hate to think that a married couple has to move every time the wife got scared.

 

[Isis1]

I'd hate to think that a married couple has to move every time the wife got scared.

maybe not. but perhaps addressing her fears might come to a resolution.