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Originally Posted by troutman
Children do get placed permanently with foster parents in serious cases of neglect.
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Is that what you would recommend here. Is that good risk based analysis?
The risk to the children is that they contract a disease that without medical intervention will cause them to die and that the parents have learned nothing. What are the odds of that? 1/100???? Less more. vs the emotional damage you do by removing the children from there homes. I would argue that more damage is done by removing the children then the risk of this re-occurring.
I think alternating weekend imprisonment might be appropriate as a deterrant to others (although punishment is rarely a deterrant to others). Maybe force them to volunteer at a hospital. I think mandatory classes on disease causes, treatment and prevention that they must pass might do some good.
I don't think punishment is necessary or beneficial though. These people and people like them do what they think is correct. How do you use this situation to change the way these type of people think?