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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just to end the debate - the District of Columbia CPS manual says that the practice of coining is an abusive.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://cfsa.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/cfsa/publication/attachments/Investigations-POM_0.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiqvMv-76D0AhWcj3IEHbj6DKQQFnoECBYQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3CoRuKQB7Io3qTKUY_L0TH

Again OP get a lawyer.[/quote]

PP, you missed the paragraph before it said it was "unacceptable".  Cultural considerations will be honored. Basically, this may mean counseling to the family that it's unacceptable in America. No one needs a lawyer.  If worried, maybe a family lawyer pro bono.[quote]
A culturally sensitive CPS assessment recognizes that caregiver practices and family structures vary as the
result of ethnic, community, and familial differences. This range can result in different but safe and
adequate care for children within the parameters of the law. The CPS assessment process must
acknowledge, respect, and honor the diversity of families. Simultaneously, CPS is obliged to protect
children from cultural practices that fall under the definitions of abuse and neglect.[/quote]

We need to be more aware of cultural differences. I go to acupuncture every week and my neurologist referred me to it. They do cupping. It helps. Without a reference on the age that it suddenly becomes culturally acceptable, the judgements get into a gray area.

The daycare did the right thing. Here's hoping CPS does too. They have their hands full with actual abuse in DC. The family will need to stop their practice of cupping/coining/whatever while the kids are little. If this is how you were taught to help your children feel better and you have it done to yourself too, where is the empathy here?

And how many of your children are boys and circumcised?  Let's put this into perspective. Some things are culturally acceptable here which are brutal. Because you have never heard of cupping or value it, doesn't mean that it's not widely acceptable and not done in an abusive manner.
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