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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
What do we do with kids who are raised in a toxic environment? Take them away from their parents? OK. Well, we don't have orphanages anymore, and we know how the residential school system turned out. Taking native children away from their homes is a highly politicized issue. How many people are out there are offering to adopt badly socialized 7-year olds, maybe with fetal alcohol syndrome? Not many - and hats off to people who do. But you can't even get Canadians to adopt newborn infants from disadvantaged parents with substance abuse issues (they'd rather spend tens of thousands of dollars and adopt from China), let alone older children or youths.
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I don't know the solutions. Somehow society needs to improve its delivery of services to disadvantaged people. I think training parents to be better parents is a start. Because at the root of these problems is poor pre-natal health, poor early childhood, poor childhood and poor adolescence. These children are a symptom of the parents who had them so fixing the parents and the people having the kids needs to be done first but that is difficult to get support for because people will say that you are throwing money away at people who made choices to get where they are and should instead focus on the children who are innocent.
I don't know, its why these types of crimes make me sad rather than outraged. Sad for the victims, sad that society couldn't save a kid.