I do alot of help out stuff with my church and today a few of our youth group and alot of the knights of columbus(group of old people who do alot of charity work and stuff for the churches) all went over to Southbury at 8 in the morning to do the "mini olympics". This is where we go to a mentaly/physically diabled campus thing and we have sports and games set up and we help the disabled play them and give them ribbons and stuff for winning(and we have different ribbons for every place so no one would feel bad). Also, the Southbury boyscout troop was helping out there too, and i found out my principle is a scout leader 
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Well the knights and other people have been helping out at this once a year for 25 years and it was my first time. And alot of the Knights members were talking about the disabled people that live at the campus and i learned that most of the people that are living there and being taken care of have been given up on by their families. Their families have just put them in this home to live the rest of their lives. What is really bad about it is that they never come to visit them or aknowledge their existance. They are just left there and are never spoken to again, they haven't seen anyone from their family in years. One of the guys remembers from last year that one disabled person asked if he knew who his dad was and he did so the disabled person said that next time he sees him could he tell him that his son said hi.
I couldn't help but thinking, "what the hell is wrong with people nowadays??" They think it is ok to just give away your kid when he's old enough(they were all in their 20's-50's) and never talk or see them again just because they're disabled and you're too lazy to take care of them again or you don't want people to know about it because it might make you look bad or maybe even just don't want to spend the money to take care of their child. They make me sick and should be ashamed of themselves.
I applaud the people who made it their full time job to stay with these people, try to understand them and take care of them as long as they live.
Oh and not all of them have been rejected, some still are visited all the time but most aren't.
What do you think about this? It makes me really angry and sad for them.
Oh and the Governor announced that hes making May 1st Knights of Columbus of Monroe day in CT.
.Well the knights and other people have been helping out at this once a year for 25 years and it was my first time. And alot of the Knights members were talking about the disabled people that live at the campus and i learned that most of the people that are living there and being taken care of have been given up on by their families. Their families have just put them in this home to live the rest of their lives. What is really bad about it is that they never come to visit them or aknowledge their existance. They are just left there and are never spoken to again, they haven't seen anyone from their family in years. One of the guys remembers from last year that one disabled person asked if he knew who his dad was and he did so the disabled person said that next time he sees him could he tell him that his son said hi.
I couldn't help but thinking, "what the hell is wrong with people nowadays??" They think it is ok to just give away your kid when he's old enough(they were all in their 20's-50's) and never talk or see them again just because they're disabled and you're too lazy to take care of them again or you don't want people to know about it because it might make you look bad or maybe even just don't want to spend the money to take care of their child. They make me sick and should be ashamed of themselves.
I applaud the people who made it their full time job to stay with these people, try to understand them and take care of them as long as they live.
Oh and not all of them have been rejected, some still are visited all the time but most aren't.
What do you think about this? It makes me really angry and sad for them.
Oh and the Governor announced that hes making May 1st Knights of Columbus of Monroe day in CT.
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