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" criminalizing bad parenting " We have an equivalent of Child Protection Services here in my country, and what they do is take away the children from bad pare
by GFischer 9y ago
" criminalizing bad parenting "
We have an equivalent of Child Protection Services here in my country, and what they do is take away the children from bad parents.
It's not a great solution, there's a massive overpopulation of children in foster homes if lucky, group homes if unlucky.
I wish they did something to the parents (my radical solution would be some kind of reversible sterilization until they prove themselves able to raise a kid)
BTW there was a thread where people complained that Child Protection Services threatened some HackerNewser parents to take their children away because they left them to play in a park alone, yet they don't do anything in Baltimore?
- millzlane 9y agoTechnically I was a free range latch key kid. I'm not sure how involved CPS here is involved in the bad parenting cases. They're probably overwhelmed with drug addicted parents and kids who's parents are criminals. I think bad parents should be punished but I'm wouldn't go as far as to say they're criminals. It's a very slippery slope. I feel like a voluntary reversible sterilization subsidies from the government would be a pretty good idea.