https://www.worldtribune.com/the-way-a-master-owns-a-slave-court-enforced-guardianship-of-seniors-emerges-as-national-issue/?fbclid=IwAR3SoPWi6kXZe6sysnSBlEcTY0CQAJkpcklWJF_wydDzoG-n-qkYKWe7zgM
The way a master owns a slave’: Court-enforced ‘guardianship’ of seniors emerges as national issue
by WorldTribune Staff, September 2, 2018
At least 1.5 million adults in the United States are under the care of guardians and, critics say, are trapped in a flawed system which controls everything from a person’s finances to visits with family members.
In North Carolina, Ginny Johnson described how, just three months after her 95-year-old father was placed in guardianship, she was locked out of the Raleigh home she had lived in for 53 years and her father was taken away.
“My father was a 95-year-old healthy man when this happened,” Johnson said. “The day before dad was abducted he was on the golf course hitting golf balls with me. He had just lifted weights for 30 minutes and biked for 30 minutes.”
Johnson said her father’s dying…
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