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Originally Posted by DrPhil
(Your obtuseness is in reference to claiming you are not targeting a specific population for paid sterilization.)
Your posts in this thread could just as easily be about your work with juvenile offenders or juvenile victims. Many juvenile offenders come from troubled backgrounds and that includes juvenile offenders who have been victimized. There are community organizations and people (not only the attorneys) who work closely with the juvenile offenders, spend time with juvenile offenders' families, and in the juvenile offenders' home/neighborhood environments.
But, the points are: (1) "juvenile justice system" within-state and across-state typically refers to the offender populations; and (2) you are not dealing with a representative sample of poor people (the origin of this particular back and forth) and should not support a program that targets poor people based on extremes.
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Well, as you said, juvenile offenders come from a fairly representative cross-sample of society. Much moreso than what you find in the deprived docket where poverty is almost always a contributing factor and when I'm appointed to a case, it is ALWAYS an aspect of the case.
But it's funny now that I've established my poverty bona fidees, you are wanting to talk about how you must insist referring to the juvenile justice system and not specifying that I'm talking about deprived cases when that fact was obvious to anyone from the context and you not picking up on it was obviously my mistake is your big deal of the thread now. Let's definitely change the subject.
And I never said I was dealing with a representative sample of poor people. Just the ones who abuse or neglect their children or are at least accused of doing that.
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