Another Give Us This Day Scandal

My child was receiving home-based instruction in 2013-2014. I had been in contact with TJ Schmidt. I was a HSLDA member.

While vacationing in Oregon State, my 11 year old daughter had been taken to a local hospital. Upon her discharge, social workers performed a “psych eval” and diagnosed her with “NEGLECT”. Not enrolled in public school. She then was transported to GIVE US THIS DAY foster home.  Multnomah County DHS seized and confined her in that place.

HSLDA told me i must move from Washington to Oregon to rescue my child, (That was stated by Mr. Schmidt!)  After 99 days the DA/DHS decided on four conditions of her release.

1. Put her into public school and
2. Get therapy for sexualized behaviors were two.

I did not get my same daughter back.  Oregon DHS and Give Us This Day currently face multimillion dollar lawsuits and
countless charges for unspeakable acts.

Gov. Brown relieves DHS top administrator, orders independent review on foster care program

Additional Information:

Foster care scandal: Oregon releases years of shocking abuse complaints  —  Senior officials at the Department of Human Services compiled a 40-plus page “chronology” of reports after learning Give Us This Day was enduring serious tax and cash flow problems  in 2014. Fifty of those complaints, officials note, landed between 2012 and 2014.

HSLDA is Wrong about Romeike v. Holder

I’m glad to see that we are not the only site that doesn’t agree with HSLDA. Read the entire article at:

Why HSLDA is Wrong about Romeike v. Holder

German parents Uwe and Hannelore Romeike decided to homeschool their children  because of concerns that the German public school system taught bad values and approved of witchcraft. Faced with fines, imprisonment, and the loss of custody of their children in the only European country where homeschooling is banned outright, the family fled to the United States in 2008.

On January 26, 2010, an immigration judge  granted the Romeikes asylum. The immigration judge held that the Romeike’s were “members of a particular social group” and concluded that they would face persecution for their religious beliefs should they be returned to Germany.

Since when are we subject to international law?  This is real problem.

For all the time and energy it spends lambasting international bodies and rights treaties, it is surprising that HSLDA is relying on international law for its arguments.  When HSLDA goes bonkers over the Department of Justice’s assertion that homeschooling is not a fundamental human right, they are really complaining that the Department of Justice doesn’t think homeschooling is protected by  international  law. The Department of Justice’s assertion has nothing whatsoever to do with an analysis of rights protected under  American  law.

But really, HSLDA and their followers have no one to blame but themselves for the supposed lack of development in international law-they have been fighting any American involvement in the development of international law for decades.

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Quiverfull Movement

It’s a fine line parents walk when training their kids in the way they should go.  I know because I tried with my daughter to do my to give her a good upbringing.  Her father died when she was just 14 and change our entire life.

One never knows what strange twist of fate will change your life forever.

These young people are speaking out about the hurt and speaking out.

Homeschooled Kids, Now Grown, Blog Against the Past

They were homeschooled in Christian families to be dutiful, have many children, and follow tradition. But now they are taking to the Internet to expose their painful pasts.

The Christian homeschooling movement first took off in the early 1980s, in tandem with the broader rise of the religious right. The Home School Legal Defense Association was founded in 1983 to promote homeschooling and protect parents from state oversight. Its founder, Michael Farris, dreamed of creating a generation that could do battle with the corrupt secular world and reclaim the institutions of American life for Jesus.

At the extreme edge of Christian homeschooling culture, the Quiverfull movement, which picked up steam in the late 1980s,preached the duty of women to submit, bear as many children as God would give them, and train them up as dedicated culture warriors, arrows in a divine quiver.

It’s sad when young people are affected by choices their parents made, but you can learn from it and make different choice for you own children,  but don’t be surprised when they have a problem with the  choices  YOU’VE made for them.  Kids don’t come with manuals.

She’s published a  guide  for those planning to flee bad homeschooling situations, as well as what she calls “A Quick and Dirty Sex Ed Guide for Quiverfull Daughters.” Someday she hopes to become an advocate for homeschooled children’s rights, but she writes, “all I’ve got right now is my blog.”

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• Crosspost: What Is Quiverfull?