AuthorsDen.com   Join | Login    
Where Authors and Readers come together!

SIGNED BOOKS    AUTHORS    BOOKS    SAMPLE CHAPTERS    AUDIOBOOKS    eBOOKS    STORIES    ARTICLES    POETRY    BLOGS    NEWS    VIDEOS    SUCCESS    TESTIMONIALS

Featured Authors:  Michael Gorton, iRobin Ouzman Hislop, iJoy Pedersen, iDebashish Haar, iSergio Serrano, Ph.D., iH.G. Potter, iLisa Loucks Christenson, iBetty Jo Tucker, iAlexander Shaumyan, iT. Cline, i

  Home > Family > Articles Popular: Books, Stories, Articles, Poetry      Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z     

Lady By The Lake55

 Follow Me  

· Contact Me
· Articles
· News
· Stories
· Blog
· Messages
· 72 Titles
· 59 Reviews
· Save to My Library
· Share with Friends!
·
Member Since: Before 2003

Lady By The Lake55, click here to update your pages on AuthorsDen!


Don't Shake A Baby
by Lady By The Lake55   
     
Recent articles by
Lady By The Lake55

• The Duchess
• The Secret Garden
• Christianity Does Not Always Mean Being Popular
• Go And Be Children Of The Church
• Don't Expect Your State Vocational Services To Help
           >> View all

This feature article is dedicated to the memory of Jayden William Griffin. Born October 25, 2002 and killed on January 22, 2003 by Shaking Baby Syndrome.

I have many causes I take on. This is my new cause: Shaking Baby Syndrome



Last October, my dear friend and sister, as all my girl/friends are my sisters, gave birth to premature but healthy baby boy, which she named Jayden William.
He was tiny at birth but as the month went by he seems to grow and respond to love and flourish.



Well, my dear sister, Jennifer Renee, was diagnosed with female cancer, amongst other health problems she has juevnile diabetes, chronic depression, even as I do, and is unmarried.



Jayden seemed to be growing normally. Jenn worked to support him and herself without little help from Jayden's "birth" father, who lives in Michigan.


Jenn is a proud, young woman. She is self sufficient and independent and will accept the help from no man.


November has come and gone, and December approached and Arizona Child Protective Services started interferring in both of their lives. Telling her what she must do and if she does not she will end up losing Jayden to the state on nothing but the reason she has numerous health problems that Arizona CPS considers to be a problem to them but not to Jayden and Jenn, herself.


Arizona CPS says that these health problems make her not to be a fit and proper parent to have care, custody, and control of her infant son, Jayden.


Jenn accepts no help from Arizona by the way of medicaid or state assistance. However, Arizona CPS still feels they have the right to interfer into her life and try to justify the means they have the right to tell her what to do with her son,Jayden.


Shortly before Christmas of last year.
The Family court of the State of Arizona and CPS tells Jenn that she has one of two choices: 1- Jenn can find someone within her family to take care of Jayden. She must sign over his
guardianship and let them have complete care, custody, and control, or two- the state will come in, take Jayden from her, and place him into a foster home, where she will never see him again.


The State of Arizona's ultimate outcome is to terminate Jenn's parental rights on the basis of her disability and place Jayden, who is a healthy, white, male child up for adoption.


Jenn opted on the less of two evils. She had found a kindly aunt, who lived in Catonsville, Maryland, who was willing to take Jayden into her home and this is because her husband and she are unable to have anymore of their own children. They have one son, and want another.


Early January, Jenn's aunt, Marcy, comes in from Maryland and Jenn and Marcy go to court to finalize the guardianship of Jayden.

This is on January 10, 2003 and shortly afterward, Marcy takes Jayden back to Catonsville, Maryland to live with her son, Tristan, husband, Tom, and her.

Everything goes well but all of a sudden on January 22, 2003, Jenn's aunt Marcy's husband, Tom, loses control and while Marcy and he are arguing over their cell phones. Tom goes into a rage, he snaps, and can not handle Jayden's crying.


The tragic result is this: Tom loses his cool and shakes baby Jayden to death.


He is now being charged with first degree murder in the state of Maryland for the death of Jayden. What are the charges: Shaking Baby Syndrome.


Seventy-Five percentage of all Shaking Baby Syndrome charges are caused by men.


This is because men are not the care-takers of their children. The Mothers are.


The effects of Shaking Baby Syndrome are terrible. Most babies end up either retarded, physical handicap, or dead.


Don't shake a baby. Babies cry only for four good reasons.


1. Babies cry because they are wet!
2. Babies cry because they are hungry!
3. Babies cry because they want to be held!
4. Babies cry because they don't feel
well and something is wrong with them.


Babies cry because this is the only way they can let their care-givers know that they want something or something is wrong. They can not tell us by verbal means.


Learn patiences please. Don't shake a baby.


Want to review or comment on this article?


Need a FREE Reader Membership?
Reviewed by Jennifer Butler (Reader)
Reviewed on October 27, 2006
When a vengeful and abusive man has a healthy slum lord's pocketbook, a lawyer on hand, a direct dial to the Sheriff for evicting poor people, and a large, televised church, CPS doesn't CARE if the Senior Pastor of that Church was heard saying just before his semi-retirement that "All women used to be prositutes." No, CPS is going to take sides with the abusive, tormentor, tyrant, kidnapper, character defaming APE who through out his brand new, much younger bride

WHILE PREGNANT...

Who then kidnapped her son

WHILE SHE WAS GIVING BIRTH TO HER DAUGHTER ...

With the help of Child Protection Services, and this sort of power and authoritative instruction for a young man, WHO NEEDS THE DEVIL?

Reviewed by susie harrison
Reviewed on August 22, 2004
Hey Krissa, perhaps if little baby had been left with MOMMY, little baby would still be alive today, ey?
Your friend from AFRA,
SusieQ
Extreme CPS Reform!!!

Reviewed on February 2, 2003
Omgosh this is so sad, I am glad you addressed this problem!
God Bless
~Michelle~

Reviewed on January 31, 2003
*tears* (((HUGS))) and love, karla. :(

Reviewed on January 31, 2003
so sad, and so unnecessary. this is a problem that needs to be addressed, and too many babies are left damaged or are killed (as was jayden william; what a beautiful child he was! :( ) by people unable to control their anger. such a travesty and such a waste of precious human life! thanks for sharing this informative, heartbreaking write! >tears < love, your friend in texas, karen lynn. :(

Popular Family Articles
  1.  Happy Mother's Day
  2.  Getting On With Life After Miscarriage
  3.  Dad's Purple Hearts
  4.  Back to the Bradshaws
  5.  Dealing With Dementia ... A Son and Da
  6.  The Gender Dance: Men and Women Going
  7.  Should I search for my long lost famil
  8.  Book Review: A Child's Love by Anna Ca
  9.  If This Table Could Talk
  10.  Who Will Listen? Fraud on the Court!
  11.  Cat Goes To Heaven / Meals On Wheels
  12.  PRECIOUS - THE MOVIE
  13.  Remembering Matthew
  14.  Is This The Legacy You Want To Leave?
  15.  GUIDELINES FOR HELPING FAMILY MEMBERS
  16.  My New Grandson is Born!
  17.  The Red Plymouth Station Wagon
  18.  Growing Old In The Modern World
  19.  Taking Stock
  20.  JERSEY DEVIL ED ... UPDATE !
  21.  JERSEY DEVIL SICK !
  22.  Her Name is Shadow
  23.  EUNUCHS
  24.  Full Time Mommas
  25.  Hummingbirds And Soul Connections

Free Book Review Program
Select a book to read and review today!

Little River by Dadfire

Let this coming of age story of a boy named Bean take you back to a simple time. Set in a small southern town in the 1960's, encircled by a river and gleaming white cotton fields.  
Member BookAds

The Secret Entrance into the Doll Land of Sha Bebe (Volume 5) by Mary Lynn Plaisance

It's almost Christmas. Lynn Basil is writing her last book about a secret entrance into the magical doll land of Sha Bebe that she loves so much. Bagannos have taken over the world! Lynn finally meets her dolls in real life. Can she write in a Secret  
Member BookAds

Little River by Dadfire

Let this coming of age story of a boy named Bean take you back to a simple time. Set in a small southern town in the 1960's, encircled by a river and gleaming white cotton fields.  
Member BookAds