Can a Woman Lose Her Child Because She Doesn't Speak English?

[a la izquierda]

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1918941,00.html

Can a Mother Lose Her Child Because She Doesn't Speak English?
By Tim Padgett with Dolly Mascareñas / Oaxaca Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009


Cirila Baltazar Cruz comes from the mountainous southern state of Oaxaca, a region of Mexico that makes Appalachia look affluent. To escape the destitution in her village of 1,500 mostly Chatino Indians, Baltazar Cruz, 34, migrated earlier this decade to the U.S., hoping to send money back to two children she'd left in her mother's care. She found work at a Chinese restaurant on Mississippi's Gulf Coast.

But Baltazar Cruz speaks only Chatino, barely any Spanish and no English. Last November, she went to Singing River Hospital in Pascagoula, Miss., where she lives, to give birth to a baby girl, Rubí. According to documents obtained by the Mississippi Clarion-Ledger, the hospital called the state Department of Human Services (DHS), which ruled that Baltazar Cruz was an unfit mother in part because her lack of English "placed her unborn child in danger and will place the baby in danger in the future."

[MajorChode]

1. The baby couldn't speak English either

It makes sense that the baby inherited that condition from the mother.

[noiretextatique]

2. how utterly insane...and racist

absolutely ridiculous.

[Mass]

3. What about teaching her English? Racist and utterly stupid.

[a la izquierda]

4. Kicked for the morning gang.

[The Straight Story]

5. Give it time and some here will want to take a baby because mom smokes, owns a gun, or is obese

;)

[dorkulon]

6. How do you know my mom?

:P

[The Straight Story]

7. So you are my long lost son!

:rofl:

[dorkulon]

9. I have bad news, dad

I have cancer, diabetes, and a gunshot wound. If only the government had protected me!

[The Straight Story]

10. Bubble care for all, and a free nanny to boot

Soon there will be bars on our windows and we won't need prisons anymore since our homes will become one, then you won't have to worry about gunshot wounds - except from our always trustful cops and other government people who will be allowed to carry them ;)

[madokie]

8. My mom didn't do any of those things but yet everyone wanted to have me

kid'n of course on the me part

[ellie]

11. No, then

my paternal grandparents and my maternal great-grandparents would have lost their children. They didn't speak English either. Have we forgotten that we are a country of immigrants? Apparently.

[a la izquierda]

12. Americans have short memories...

methinks.
My dad's parents spoke English (came from Ireland). But my mom's grandparents did not.

Oh well, just take the kids, give them to some nice (white) family and tell the parents to go fuck themselves. In Chanti, in this case (admittedly, I don't know much about this language).

[daedalus_dude]

13. Nope. Should not.