MTV Teen Mom’s Amber Portwood Being Investigated By Police & Child Protective Services
It seems Amber Portwood, star of MTV’s hit show Teen Mom, has landed herself in some pretty big trouble following the latest episode of the show.
According to RadarOnline, Amber, 20, is now being investigated by the Anderson Police Department for domestic violence against her ex-fiance Gary Shirley. This all stems from the last episode of the show which showed Amber losing her temper, in turn hitting and kicking Gary several times during an argument.
Note: That was stupid.
When I saw Amber many times hurting Gary and the way she treats their daughter I wondered why social services or the police did not help, this has gone on since the first season. Why did they wait? Did they wait because it was a tv show? Why wait a couple of seasons?
ReplyDeleteANONYMOUS....
ReplyDeleteIT IS NOT NECESSARY NOR IS IT WARRANTED YOU SPEAKING WHAT IS NOT THE TRUTH. I HAVE WATCHED THAT SHOW AND BEING A SOCIAL WORKER WHO WORKS AND DOES NOT WRECK.... THAT IT IS NOT OUR BUSINESS TO INTRUDE UPON PEOPLE'S LIVES... THAT THE HELP IS THERE WHEN IT IS NECESSARY AND IT IS OFFERED AND IF NEEDED INSISTED UPON AND STRONGLY ENFORCED WHEN NECESSARY IN A WAY THAT IS APPROPRIATE AND NOT CONDESCENDING IF AT ALL POSSIBLE TO DO THAT...AMBER IS CLEARLY UNSTABLE AND IS NOT ON MEDICATION IF NECESSARY. WHY THEY DID NOT STEP IN BEFORE BECAUSE A LOT OF OFFICERS ARE EATING DOUGHNUTS AND COFFEE WHEN THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE WORKING. MAYBE THEY ARE EXHAUSTED. IT IS TIME CONSUMING AND VERY TIRING AND MENTALLY DRAINING DEALING WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE RESISTANT TO TREATMENT AND NOT ABLE TO MAKE DECISIONS TO HELP THEMSELVES. I WATCH AMBER AND SHE IS OFTEN VERY AWARE OF HER BEHAVIOUR AT SOME POINT AND NEVER HAS THAT KID SUFFERED B/C OF HER. GARY STEPS AS THE FATHER AND TALKS TO HER ABOUT IT. THE ONLY TIME I SEE THAT CHILD SUFFERING B/C OF THE MOTHER IS WHEN SHE IS NOT CARING FOR HERSELF AND IT SHOWS IN HER TEMPERMENT. SHE IS STILL A GOOD MOTHER WHO IS DOING AS WELL AS SHE CAN UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF HOW SHE IS FEELING. THE STATE SHOULD NOT GET INVOLVED EXCEPT TO HELP AND THAT CHILD IS NOT MISTREATED SHE HAS FAMILY THERE THAT CARE AND HELP HER. QUESTION: WHY DO YOU THINK THAT IT IS IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF A CHILD TO BE REMOVED IMMEDIATELY..... TREATING THEIR DAUGHTER SHE WAS A GOOD MOTHER. WORKING PROVIDING FOR HER KID. HER BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER HAD LIMITS SET BY HER AND DID NOT BY THE FATHER. SHE WAS WORKING, PUTTING A ROOF OVER HER DAUGHTER'S HEAD AND SHE IS DOING THIS WITH A OBVIOUS ANGER PROBLEM AT THE FATHER B/C HE REFUSES TO SET LIMITS FOR HIMSELF. SO WHAT CHALLENGE IS THAT FOR HER AND IS THAT FAIR? GARY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS OWN BEHAVIOURS AND HE ACTS LIKE A CHILD. SHE IS TELLING HIM SHE WANTS A MAN AND SHE WENT AND WATCH THE SHOW AND THEN TELL ME AGAIN WHY SHOULD THEY REMOVE THAT CHILD FROM A LOVING MOTHER. YOU DON'T REMOVE CHILDREN FROM LOVING PARENTS. AMBER IS A LOVING PARENT AND SHE IS ALSO STRUGGLING WITH WHAT COULD BE A MENTAL HEALTH ISSUE AND WE DON'T REMOVE CHILDREN B/C SHE IS ANGRY. WE HELP HER DEAL WITH THOSE ISSUES AND GARY NEEDS TO GET A JOB. SO IT WOULD TAKE SOME OF THE PRESSURE OFF AMBER. SHE IS DOING VERY WELL ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.
i agree stress can affect you in so many ways. A good mother can become angry when there is too much pressure for her to perform in too many ways. I have seen saints in this world and I am here to attest that I am not one of those saints. I have a small child and it can get stressful not knowing where food, rent, bills, etc. are going to come from. Amber was so happy to be doing things on her own, then Gary came back in without a job and things went haywire again. If Gary would go get a full time job and come home everyday to his family I believe Amber would be much better. I am sure she would still have bad days from time to time because she does need stabilization in the form of outside help, maybe medically, maybe mentally, but I think if the two were living normally as they should (INCLUDING GARY) things would not be as bad as they are.
ReplyDeleteGet off of your high horse you CPS family recker!The girl is a young mother trying her hardest to get along in life with a sucky father who mentally abuses her any chance he gets,he play's sorry very disturbing mind games and drives her to loose control because she has no saport group.These girls,as teens go on this show to show people the real life struggels of being young and having a baby,There for miss CPS worker They should have had it set up so when some thing like this did happen she would have had someone to rely on,but know you people waite around the corner like a praying mantis and strike,when some one is at there lowest, you dont strike the abuser you strike the mom and say its all there fault,you should be ashamed of your self you sicken me,she does not need any damn medication,thats always your fix to any problem!Get real and start helping with counceling for that sicko boyfriend for all the mental abuse he has caused her and that child.Start at the problem first not at what the problem has caused,I am sure she would take counceling classes any time,you do not need to steal her baby,you do not need to punish her any more then her crazy sicko ex has!
ReplyDeletewow it is amazing how the caseworker that commented said that Amber is a good mom even after the way she treats her child. and here I am with never being accused of any abuse but cant get my kids man I with I was a TV start
ReplyDeleteHave never seen this show and probably never will... but I will comment on "child Protection Workers" and with all honesty It's a lie to say child protection workers have not destroyed lives.
ReplyDeleteTo all that commented on Amber being a good mother and faulting Gary. Would you feel the same way if it was her sitting a home and him hitting on her. I think not! Abuse of a child by father or mother should be viewed the same, not dismissed because she is a stressed mother, abuse and child neglect is the same no matter who or the situation.
ReplyDeleteMrs Social Worker you are full of it. You people get into people's business that have served the country only to take their kids away from them because they have left to protect everyone who is to lazy to get off their arses to protect their homes. Yet you let terrorist keep their children while they hang them in broad day light from the balconies or abuse them to no end so that the kids are to afraid to say something about it. You even go so far to decide that even if a mother has done nothing wrong that she is a horrible mother because she is not rich. We poor mothers are more likely to get our children away then rich mothers who care not for their kids. Check the news, Russian kid sent back? Michael Jackson? Brittany Spears? All examples of why Amber hasnt been touched.
ReplyDeleteto the social worker commenting: go to hell you tax $ sucking pig! you aren't even the worker on this case and you have already formed your "professional" opinion from watching a tv show..... sounds like you would do well in the TSA.
ReplyDeleteAll that money we spend taking kids away should be spent on intervention!..Fix the Family AS A WHOLE Unit! Community strength is in Family Unity! It's a NO BRAINER!
ReplyDeleteThe Show would be better IF for each problem..We watch them find a Cure..With all that Money...You could take that show, and FIX A FAMILY!..I would watch it FOR SURE!..Now it's just "Dirty Laundry"..I have no time for that!..Let's start a new show!..Families at risk getting REAL HELP in all parts..Parenting, anger, Relation, Addiction, and Communication..Bring in Dr. Phill, Dr.Drew..Mental Health people who don't write scripts, but deal with things on Behavioral Level..OR past trama that effects their everyday lives. ie:I was told I was bipolar LOL!..I wasn't I was EMOTIONAL with no one to talk to! Enough said.
ReplyDeleteJust so everyone is aware, not every agency is that way. there are the few that actually work with the families to provide supports to keep the family unit together. i am no Social worker but i do work with them. It all depends on the workers. As for Amber, i have seen it for my own eyes the stress of having a child when your still a child yourself( my oldest sister is my example, because of her i still don't have kids and i'm in my early 30's, she was a good mom for her first 3 children but b/c she had kids @ 15 she could not be a kid herself.she wanted to be a kid again and the B$%&* up and left her kids and now their permanent wards).DAMN THOSE PARENTS WHO ARE SELFISH FOR PUTTING THEMSELVES BEFORE THEIR KIDS. iF THEY DON'T WANT KIDS USE BIRTH CONTROL AND PROTECTION AND THE MORNING AFTER PILL. If this was the case OH MY we'd have millions and millions of kids in care. They don't have the skills to properly raise their children. that's why the agency i work with tries to help the client find the resouces and assist the client to access them. If all fails then taking children is a last resort. It all depends on the parents and the situation why kids come into care. I know for a fact that there are young moms that do want to better their parenting skills and once they get these skills there is no need for cfs to get invovled.
ReplyDeleteIT BREAKS MY HEART THAT THESE CHILDREN THINK IT IS ALL THEIR FAULT THEIR IN CARE AND A MAJORITY OF THEM THINK THIS WAY.
Amber does NOT treat her daughter bad, shes a young mother and has struggles just like everyone else.. You're sayin the social worker formed and opinion just by watching the TV show but YOU DID TOO.. some CPS workers help people and others dont but this country still needs them.. Get used to it.. theres some good police and some bad ones but we still need them.. I hope that you're not a mother yourself because in my opinion your comments are immature and troublesome and if you're spending that much time on a computer to leave comment after comment about something that doesnt even concern you and is really none of your business anyway then you cant be spending too much time taking care of a child. Grow up.. There's nothing you can do about anyone and what happens with them so why are you stressing so much about it?? It seems like other peoples business is the center of your world.. Worry about you and only you, Being in everyone elses business and judging other people will get you no where but in bad positions.
ReplyDeleteI HAVE TO AGREE JUST CAUSE SHE HAS A TV SHOW YA'LL LET IT GO AND LIKE ONE SAID US SINGLE POOR MOTHERS THAT HAS GONE THRU HELL LIKE LOOSING A HUSBAND AND COULD NOT GET NO HELP FOR ANY MORAL SUPPORT U GUYS CAME IN AND TOOK MY KIDS INSTEAD OF HELPING NOW ONE IS 19 AND ON THE STREETS AND ON DRUGS ANOTHER IS 17 NOW BUT WEN SHE WAS FIRST TAKEN AWAY SHE RAN AND SHE ENDED UP BEING Raped drugs pushed on her against her will and was made to sell her body for a asshole and my 15 year old has not seen either sister in along time ya'll dont only steal kids but u also split them up and my now 17 year old could have been dead at 15 cause u guys r so much better than a mother just got to thank god she is still with us so save ur were here to help bull shit u guys are here to steal our kids and sell them use them and mistreat them so save it shild welfare
ReplyDeletei agree with the social worker. Since none of you know Amber. she is a young mother who is very loving torwards her daughter. Ok she has issues with her family dont we all she tries to deal with all the controversy the best way she knows how. like i said she loves her daughter she defenitly keeps her out of harms way so leave her alone.
ReplyDeleteI am glad to see there is a case worker out there that sees the whole situation.....i have never watched the show so I cannot put my opinions on particular situation however and glad to hear that there are caseworkers that have a heart and an un biased view.
ReplyDeletesincerely --one who has delt with the worst case worker ever whom took the case personally rather than help and do her JOB!!!