Friday, February 02, 2007

Filling out child abuse clearance forms

If my seat belt analogy from yesterday didn't stick; why don't we hitchhike anymore? My impression was that early in transportation history, hitchhiking was an accepted form of getting from one place to another. When was the last time you hitchhiked or picked up a hitchhiker? Isn't the reason why we don't hitchhike comparable to the reason why we should check the criminal and child abuse histories of everyone who works with children?

The child abuse clearance form requires you to fill out every address at which you've ever lived and every person you've ever lived with. I had so many I had to send in a separate page with all of my listings. When you're parents are missionaries and move at least every four years, combined with being a boarding student in grades 4-7 and 12, on top of four years of college, the list gets quite long. If for nothing else, it was a great exercise of my brain functions as these rows of Cold Case files hadn't been accessed in decades. Here's what mine looks like:

Previous Addresses (since 1975)
1975-1976 Princeton, NJ
1976-1977 Lipa City, Batangas, Philippines
1977-1978 Karuhatan, Valenzuela, Bulacan, Philippines
1978-1980 Labo, Camarines Norte, Philippines
1980-1981 Princeton, NJ
1982-1986 Villa Carolina, Muntinglupa, Philippines
1986-1987 Havertown, PA
1987-1989 Galas, Quezon City, Philippines
1989-1990 Gapan, Nueva Ecija, Philippines
1990-1990 Cape May Court House, NJ
1990-1992 Langhorne, PA
1992-1992 Gapan, Nueva Ecija, Philippines
1992-1993 Langhorne, PA
1993-1993 Skillman, NJ
1993-1994 Langhorne, PA
1994-1994 Wallingford, PA
1994-1995 Princeton, NJ
1995-1998 Lawrenceville, NJ
1998-2007 Lititz, PA

Household Members
P. Norton
L. Norton
S. Mittlestat
L. Agdepa
E. Bagasin
J. Westfall
N. Townsend
A. Miller
A. Walker
P. Bunnell
B. Burgess
J. Van Dam
J. Hochrein
M. Brussel
E. Dolbeck
P. Licata
T. Snyder
G. Peters
R. Thompson
A. Wong
M. Young
P. Colburn
E. Norton