All the sad celebrities lost in a world of exploitation even by their own parents - and the vulnerable like those in disabilities are exploited for money too by those who are meant to care…
It always upsets me and makes me angry to see parents want their children to be achievers and those who do achieve are then exploited by those same ambitious parents.
With this kind of exploitation the world can only become a darker place….yet when a child is born they are someone with hope for future even children with disabilities believe it or not. It requires unconditional love and a different kind of deeper love to raise a child with disabilities, parents of gold do it out of love and all parents should unconditionally love their ‘normal’ children too or those very same children with so much promise can develop psychological and anxiety disorders for not being accepted for who they are.
The same for disability children they sense when they are not accepted by their own families or others in this world and it puts them down – and makes them also depressed and isolated. We all need love. Discrimination for race, for class, for being a woman, or for disability leads to bad treatment of those on the receiving end and evil rises where no one speaks up. We have to speak up for our children and fight those who would exploit them for money and governments who do not care what happens to our children.
We cannot allow abuse, neglect or death happen to those who have no voice we must give them a voice literally for our nonverbal children.
After seeing the new movie on Whitney Houston raised in the church, like Dolly Parton, and Elvis Presley. A voice with an incredible vocal range no others could match like her. She rose up trained by her mother to become ‘the voice’ and yet marrying someone who would put her down with abuse or at least bully her, Bobby Brown, and to top it off Whitney’s own father then exploits her money. A bit like Brittany Spears, and Elvis whose manager and father used up his money. They exploited their own children. That’s not love. Amy Winehouse, knew she had to perform, she could not accept herself she had to do drugs with her druggie boyfriend and her father wanted her in rehab, he also wanted her to keep working hard performing. Always the push to perform and the money driving it by the parents and managers. How crass and sad that parents who are meant to love will instead use their children and exploit their talent but cannot unconditionally love them.
All Whitney Houston wanted was to be herself and to be loved. After taking drugs and dying in the bath tub in 2012 (at 48 years old), a year or so later her daughter, Bobbie Christina, also took drugs in the bath found face down still alive and had to then be put in a coma for 6 months with family still hoping she would survive, until they had to turn her life support off. She was only 23 years old. She was running a reality show she was performing too like her mother used to. The writers of the facts stop short of calling these suicides but they were both people who wanted to be loved yet all others could see was talent and money.
How sad. Children and people with disabilities are treated as not important enough to really care about, instead it has become big business to look after the most vulnerable. Now we see exploitation by disabilities providers to make money out of our vulnerable children even bully parents for what they want to get. Not really caring enough though or giving trained professional care. Providers provide instead substandard workers who are too young to work in disabilities – it is not Macdonalds or a coffee shop – it is complex care of those most vulnerable! I told the manager at the day program and respite house to take away one of the workers from working with James one on one, and I felt he was too young. Its cheap labour. I wanted someone better who knew what they were doing.
The manager has tried to charge me for our Behavioral Practitioner training his workers which he asked for while a support plan was being made by the Practitioner. This was cover by NDIS special funding for these highly paid Behavioral Practitioners and they are paid to do training for the workers, but this provider also secretly charged me for the time the workers were being trained. So something free given to the workers at James funds cost, was then paid for again by his other funds – I said no - as an invoice called day program for a day he was never there was sent. Amend it I said. Weeks later they finally did and the accounts told me the invoice was for training. Training is covered by the Practitioner being paid to do it I said – oh but you want to charge James again but called it something else not ‘training’! You were not transparent with me I said and sent a complaint to the NDIS.
It never stops – you have to question everything with providers – everything they charge you for because our dear children are being exploited by the wolves. We must keep the ‘b………’ honest someone once said to me. It’s true the greed in this world and amongst the disability providers is over the top and the more they get the more they try to deceive and take. Parents have to keep their wits about them. Some think the providers are always caring and doing good – hardly – not so stand up and fight for your children’s rights and against exploitation. A man said to me the other day at the shops how he sends his grown autistic son to a provider 4 times a week is great he said – I wouldn’t trust providers I said – those particular ones, he doesn’t know, had let the children in their care be abused by a worker who is now in prison and also let a girl die in the bath ignoring instructions for her care with seizures. This parent is oblivious to this. The workers young often and are ignorant. Their training non-existent.
The most talented of the world are exploited when their parents are not looking out for their child or fighting for them only seeing dollars in their eyes -and at the same time the most vulnerable in the world are being exploited by organizations with dollars in their eyes and parents have to fight for these children and fight hard as things get worse. Yet we need each other and to stand together as parents, so that the darkness does not win and destroy our children. We love them and every child that is born is of value and has a future and hope if we give it to them. Sign my petition for cctv cameras in disabilities so that we can make providers accountable for the injuries our children often receive but are hidden from the parents to know what really happened change.org/disabilitycameras
All the best
Anndrea x