I think about crime prevention in the new technology era. Police are very location and perspective based so they run afoul with blind spots and bigotry. They also use their very excessively generous funding to equip armament that is focused on violent riots, which are rare. The crimes I’d like to stop are more personal. Trauma from child abuse could be reduced if we simply reduced the abuse. I have always been distraught when my daughter was abused with drama, danger, neglect, and excessive volume screaming by her mother. To stop it I tried to record it and report it but all that did was dissolve out family entirely. The government agency’s response struck me as incurious sloppy and foolish.. Where is the intelligent careful analysis of situations, personalities, behaviors and recent events. Everyone instantly started treating me like I was the problem, while I was the one reporting the terrible unnecessary conditions that I object to. Obviously crime extends far past child abuse and child abuse gets far worse than just screaming and behaving violently, but it always seem that the formative years are a great place to try to stem the flow of crime. Also, child abuse is some of the worst of the crimes we would like to put an end to. So, what is the solution? Monitoring a household and crowdsourcing possible misbehavior observation is more available than ever before. A small group of loving overseers could easily identify patterns of abuse and intervene politely and carefully with the necessary data. Why not equip people monitoring duties to oversee each child’s tender years? Nobody wants childhood trauma to compound later behaviors that will lead to trauma. Being filmed is not traumatic and screens can ensure that everyone is aware of it all. People can easily be trained to ignore embarrassing thing like nose picking, bathroom breaks etc. Also a constantly monitored life would be data for psychology and sociology that could inform public policy for our great benefit. It would be a wellspring of data and obviously public policy needs to be updated. When I told some strangers on a bus that I had called child protective services unanimously everyone said not to and even chastised me despite their total ignorance of every aspect of the situation. It is not healthy to have a government agency that people loathe and are threatened by. My call of concern for my daughter’s physical and mental heath merited celebrations of my daughter, my fatherhood, my interest in her well being and thoughtful response. That we didn’t receive that has hurt us all deeply. It is time for a renewed analysis of how we treat parents and children and what matters. I know with certainty that tone and volume of a word is vastly more important than a word’s choice, yet supposedly and unscientifically labelled, bad words are where our attention is most often drawn when it comes to child rearing. Hitting and screaming rally matter and should be taken seriously without custody changing on a long term basis. Also temporary replacement into a regulated monitor living situations should refresh and inform parents, not threaten their parenthood and access to the child. A child should be the love of a whole life. Abuse needs to be addressed and it isn’t very humanely done right now. Also abuse exists on a scale and with proper monitoring and contact a parent should never lose access and primary custody.

It’s the secondary custody’s tabooed area that I’d like to colonize for a loving New America. This lovinization, if you’ll allow me some jargon works on the knowledge that with families almost always no one is the bad guy. Also, every family needs help and attention. Many and specifically mine have been hurt for its absence. Our society must neglect no longer!

This is my first text blog post on my site and I am proud of it. During my typing of it many new ideas cropped up that I got to share with you. I hope to blog more in the future. For context, right now I am not living near my daughter. Her mother moved far away and suggests she will do so again if I move closer. This is not spiteful, but it is these life choices that make me most dour. I would like to see my nine year old in person every day. It has been difficult to get every week and online. There is no government or social organization that can remedy this pure awfulness. It is too late for my daughter to live a peaceful quiet childhood totally absent the trauma of inappropriate parental abuse. If we act other children will not suffer like she has. Thank you for reading. I hope you got something out of this, I know I did.