Here is a worthwhile read. MP CPS Struggles Maybe I am sensitive to the topic after listening to NPR Reveal No Where to Run on the way home from the lake on Sunday.
Of course while these folks are concerned about how to raise funding and resources to manage the growing case load... I am more interested in how we as a society can prevent these dysfunctional Baby Mamas and Papas from having / keeping kids in the first place.
Thoughts?
Of course while these folks are concerned about how to raise funding and resources to manage the growing case load... I am more interested in how we as a society can prevent these dysfunctional Baby Mamas and Papas from having / keeping kids in the first place.
Thoughts?
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My comment at MP:
I keep wondering how our society can get ahead of this problem by enacting policies that strongly dissuade unqualified Baby Mamas and Daddas from having and keeping children in their homes.
The folks on both the Left and Right seem to believe that making babies is a person's right whether they:
- can afford to care for them or not.
- are independent, mature, educated, self disciplined or not
The State requires a threshold level of knowledge and money before one is legally allowed to drive their car on our streets. (ie pass test, pay for car, pay of insurance) And yet there are almost no requirements for being allowed to have/keep children.
Given how challenging it is to raise children and how incredibly it is for the child and our society, this seems so backwards to me.
This Reveal story was very fascinating and disturbing. And as with this piece they seemed obsessed with putting a band aid over the problem with more funds. Not actually stopping the problem.
economic development and "social norming."
And it is a shame to hear a libertarian suggest that China's one-child mandate would come here, including the "if you are favored by government, two" rule. Sounds like Eugenics to me. Racist Margaret Sanger would be proud.
As I said...
"The folks on both the Left and Right seem to believe that making babies is a person's right whether they:
- can afford to care for them or not.
- are independent, mature, educated, self disciplined or not"
And as I said, that is eugenics, imposed by government, that in a well-managed free economy takes care of itself. Subsidize poverty and children and guess what, you get more of it and them. "more kids than they can afford" tends to occur only when people don't have to work to "afford" them.
Jerry,
That has got to be one of the most foolish statements you have ever made.
Mothers have more children than they can afford in most of the world. And there is pretty much no welfare in most of those areas.
And it is worst where birth control and early term abortions are not readily available for the people who need it most. (ie the poor and/or irresponsible)
Now here is a judge I can support.
Does "most of the world" have a "well-managed free economy"? Is there rapid economic development in which everybody benefits? THAT has proven to depress birthrates everywhere it (happily) occurs. I know a number of charitable organizations helping that to occur through micro-loans and "human-powered" capital equipment like peanut-shellers.
And welfare isn't needed when everybody is working, which in turn drives economic development. Big government is often the creator of problems, not the solution.
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