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
Friday, February 02, 2007
Filling out child abuse clearance forms
Labels:
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