Greegor
February 27th 07, 06:46 PM
On Feb 26, 8:40 pm, "Dan Sullivan" > wrote:
> On Feb 26, 9:27 pm, "Greegor" > wrote:
>
> OT
>
> Start a new thread, dingleberry.
Did you think this important agency declaration about
"untidy houses" wasn't relevant to this story? How is that Dan?
On Feb 26, 8:27 pm, "Greegor" > wrote:
> http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007702210437
>
> Iowans on 'Wife Swap' trigger viewers' fears
> State officials find no credible reports of abuse. The Haigwoods are
> home-schooled and eat a raw food diet.
>
> BY JENNIFER JACOBS AND ERIN CRAWFORD REGISTER STAFF WRITERS
> February 21, 2007
>
> State child abuse officials were peppered with complaints from across
> the country Tuesday after an Iowa family was featured on the
> television show "Wife Swap" eating raw eggs and meat, living in anuntidyhome, and seemingly letting the children go unschooled.
>
> State officials said there appears to be no child abuse in this case.
> An unorthodox diet and messy housekeeping don't amount to abuse, and
> the parents have filed the proper paperwork to home-school their two
> teenage children.
>
> Barb and Mike Haigwood, who raise organic food on a farm near Massena,
> applied to appear on "Wife Swap," which asks two wives leading
> dramatically different lives to exchange roles for two weeks. The
> episode aired Monday night on ABC.
>
> The Haigwoods' children, Aleesha, 13, and Lee, 16, said they do not go
> to school, and the boy said his schooling includes counting how many
> eggs his chickens produce.
>
> Barb Haigwood, 37, said she believes in eating every two to three
> hours, so she wakes the children during the night to drink a beverage
> containing kefir, a yogurt-like product.
>
> The Iowa Department of Human Services logged a number of calls to its
> child abuse hot line, as well as at least 10 messages e-mailed to its
> Web site, said spokesman Roger Munns. The agency director received one
> fax.
>
> DHS only investigates child abuse and neglect cases when there is a
> credible report that, if proven true, would amount to abuse, Munns
> said.
>
> "None of these reports rise to that threshold," he said. "People who
> eat unusual food and feed it to their children are not abusive, nor
> are people whose houses are not tidy."
>
> The Haigwoods filed paperwork proving competent private schooling, as
> the law requires, said Steve Pelzer, superintendent of the Cumberland
> and Massena school district. A licensed teacher from the West Des
> Moines area monitors the children's progress, he said.
>
> On Tuesday, Barb Haigwood said the family could not comment unless
> reporters go through ABC's public relations department. A spokesman
> for the network could not be reached Tuesday afternoon.
>
> Previously, Haigwood had told the Register that she and her family eat
> nothing but raw food - eggs and meat included. They adopted this plan,
> which eliminates additives or dyes, as a way to deal with health
> problems related to their daughter's attention deficit disorder.
> On Feb 26, 9:27 pm, "Greegor" > wrote:
>
> OT
>
> Start a new thread, dingleberry.
Did you think this important agency declaration about
"untidy houses" wasn't relevant to this story? How is that Dan?
On Feb 26, 8:27 pm, "Greegor" > wrote:
> http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007702210437
>
> Iowans on 'Wife Swap' trigger viewers' fears
> State officials find no credible reports of abuse. The Haigwoods are
> home-schooled and eat a raw food diet.
>
> BY JENNIFER JACOBS AND ERIN CRAWFORD REGISTER STAFF WRITERS
> February 21, 2007
>
> State child abuse officials were peppered with complaints from across
> the country Tuesday after an Iowa family was featured on the
> television show "Wife Swap" eating raw eggs and meat, living in anuntidyhome, and seemingly letting the children go unschooled.
>
> State officials said there appears to be no child abuse in this case.
> An unorthodox diet and messy housekeeping don't amount to abuse, and
> the parents have filed the proper paperwork to home-school their two
> teenage children.
>
> Barb and Mike Haigwood, who raise organic food on a farm near Massena,
> applied to appear on "Wife Swap," which asks two wives leading
> dramatically different lives to exchange roles for two weeks. The
> episode aired Monday night on ABC.
>
> The Haigwoods' children, Aleesha, 13, and Lee, 16, said they do not go
> to school, and the boy said his schooling includes counting how many
> eggs his chickens produce.
>
> Barb Haigwood, 37, said she believes in eating every two to three
> hours, so she wakes the children during the night to drink a beverage
> containing kefir, a yogurt-like product.
>
> The Iowa Department of Human Services logged a number of calls to its
> child abuse hot line, as well as at least 10 messages e-mailed to its
> Web site, said spokesman Roger Munns. The agency director received one
> fax.
>
> DHS only investigates child abuse and neglect cases when there is a
> credible report that, if proven true, would amount to abuse, Munns
> said.
>
> "None of these reports rise to that threshold," he said. "People who
> eat unusual food and feed it to their children are not abusive, nor
> are people whose houses are not tidy."
>
> The Haigwoods filed paperwork proving competent private schooling, as
> the law requires, said Steve Pelzer, superintendent of the Cumberland
> and Massena school district. A licensed teacher from the West Des
> Moines area monitors the children's progress, he said.
>
> On Tuesday, Barb Haigwood said the family could not comment unless
> reporters go through ABC's public relations department. A spokesman
> for the network could not be reached Tuesday afternoon.
>
> Previously, Haigwood had told the Register that she and her family eat
> nothing but raw food - eggs and meat included. They adopted this plan,
> which eliminates additives or dyes, as a way to deal with health
> problems related to their daughter's attention deficit disorder.