> If guardians cannot feed their dependents adequately, they should lose their dependents. If they cannot, then they should be helped to be able to. If they ca

> If guardians cannot feed their dependents adequately, they should lose their dependents. If they cannot, then they should be helped to be able to. If they can but do not, then I'd agree that they should lose them. You're describing two problems with different solutions: Extreme poverty and outright abuse. Adoption beyond infancy is rare, and I've never heard good things about the foster system, and I'd be loath to put kids into it, except as a last resort. > The unfairness in the system emerges from when parents have kids through selfish motivation only to force society as a whole to pay the cost of raising them Financial conditions for families change all the time. A parent looses a job and has difficulty getting a new one. The bread-winner in the family gets hurt, and the family has to limp along on a lesser income. You can't just ascribe unfairness to selfishness. Things aren't that simple.