"LICENCE TO PARENTHOOD"

"Hello, and welcome to channel 2 news edition. I'm Yonit Levi. And tonight's breaking news is: another mother was summoned to an investigation on suspicion for abusing her toddler…" Unfortunately the recent news editions in Israel have mostly been devoted to this sort of affairs. More and more parents lose their parental senses and let their responsibility flee from their minds.

A while ago the horrifying affair of the "starving mother" was revealed, in which a religious single mother from Jerusalem was suspected for starving her three year old child and maltreating him. The reasons for this misbehavior were not perfectly evident and the mother denied it from the beginning. Although, what possible reason could cover up a mother's ill-treatment towards her own child?!

Another case that was reported was that of a father who was accused for(ww. - of) biting his one-year old toddler. Terrifying as it might seem, the TA district has cast him a rather slight verdict – one year probation.

In conclusion, I deprecate these terribly irresponsible parents. They are supposed to nurture their children and guide them at every given moment and teach them how to survive in the world. Abusive parents brazenly violate their children's basic right to live. Such people do not deserve to be granted the license to parenthood. I believe that the Israeli court of law must exacerbate its management against abusive parents in order to avoid similar cases in the future. May all these children find peace in their homes

Very good work

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Daphna.

Deportation of the foreign workers' kids

In the last several years it has become a tendency to foreign people from underdeveloped countries to come to Israel for the sake of work. This phenomenal(ww.) is controversial due to a contradiction between the feelings and the logic.

When the foreign workers come to Israel they own an official license, which is valid for a limited period of time. During their stay in Israel, they shape their lives, start families and bear children. As time goes by their license expires, but most of them decide to stay in Israel and live a life of fear and refuge, thus jeopardizing their children's lives.

The past two years have been the hardest for those miserable foreign workers' kids. After going through ceaseless humiliations from the Israeli society, they have to be expelled from their native country to a foreign country which they are scarcely familiar with. They(ww. - This) may create an unpleasant childhood memory for them.

On the whole, I have mercy(ww.) on those miserable children, since it's their parents' fault for the current situation. Their parents chose to neglect the law, thus putting their children in (the) middle of this mess. Despite this, it's more than obvious that a country will inforce its rules and order to avoid anarchism. To my mind, those kids should at least be permited to finish the kindergarden or a school year and get departure grant(not clear what you mean).

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3774680,00.html

Good work.

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Daphna