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Elizabeth Price
Yonkers, NY
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Elizabeth commented on the article |Laws are made for the leaders of a community to benefit them. This man is trying to help people. They are trying to hurt people and score points with politicians. If there were a shred of deceny in this town, people would say, well, why don't we make a concerted effort and try to clean up and make it neat and cook some nice hommade meals for these people? When was the last time someone cooked for them?
When that town develops a sense of priorities, a more civilized and humanitarian outlook, the law will leave this nice generous man alone to do the work God gave him to do.
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Elizabeth commented on the article |There is an answer to homelessness but society isn't ready for it.
If there is a history of mental illness in the direct family line, such as the mother or the father, there has to be planning for the future that the child or children will be susectable. They should be examined carefully and monitored by a specialist until about age 18 and told that if they ever feel depressed, anxious or like isolating themselves, any sign at all, they should go to the person or agency monitoring them. People who don't come into contact or who never came into contact with mental or emotional illness are totally uneducated in this respect. The mentally ill are vunerable to being robbed, having their government checks stolen and used after being forced to sign them and "hand them over"; their housing is often compromised and they are teased and tormented. The police can't watch them 24 hours a day. In areas where the homeless live, there should be police supervision and help nearby. Gradually as the homeless person sees they are taken seriously and people care, they might get the strength to get out of their situations. Not all homelessness is caused by mental illness. Some people live in their cars, some spend the day at friend's houses, some even look for jobs and shower where they can find it. Some homeless actually have means but do not want to be a part of society. They just want to escape from life. Each case is different. However, there once was a woman who went to the YWCA. She had a suitcase filled with her savings. She got a room. Within 24 hours she was murdered and her money was gone. Mental illness? Bad judgement? Not enough security? Why did they let her take that money to her room rather than insist that she put it in a bank? "Where are the families" some ask in a sanctimonious manner? In all probability, the families are deceased or in institutions themselves. They may not want anything to do with a sick child who inherited a gene from 3 generations back. A wealthy Westchester family threw their sick child out on the street because they just didn't want him around. A social worker had to come in this emergency situation and find some sort of housing for this unfortunate individual whose illness interfered with his parents interests.
Each case is different. If it takes an entire village to raise a child, it takes an entire society to deal with the mentally ill since "the village" was not apparently willing or able to help.
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