• M. Orange@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I read the whole thing, and the one thing that stuck out to me the most is that this Diane Baird is an disgusting person. I had such a visceral reaction to this article, and her use of pseudoscience to take advantage of foster parents and rip children away from their birth parents is absolutely horrific. The more factors you load onto one variable (in this case, eye contact), the less it means, and she uses people’s lack of understanding about that to draw absolutely insane conclusions that no competent and ethical psychologist would.

    • middlemuddle@beehaw.org
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      She’s apparently made it her life’s work to abuse the vulnerability of both bio and foster parents by leveraging her “knowledge” in a way that favors kids being permanently separated from their bio family. There are certainly circumstances that warrant that kind of separation, but she and that lawyer’s office seem to be leading a campaign of child separation. That’s pure evil.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah wow. What a horrible person. She has no care for the children’s well-being as evidenced by the conclusion where she attributes the child doing well to “heroing on”.

      • StringTheory@beehaw.org
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        I’m gonna be really shallow and judgmental and just say her picture is creepy, too. What a bizarre pose and expression.