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Fun fact: one of the single most effective interventions for homeless people who take drugs is to give them a place to live. It's an amazing example of how givi

Fun fact: one of the single most effective interventions for homeless people who take drugs is to give them a place to live. It's an amazing example of how giving people resources helps them stop relying on unhealthy coping mechanisms. What you describe is quite literally a textbook cause for removing the child from the mother in German law - an immediate risk to their opportunity to develop cognitively or emotionally. You may well be describing an amazing case where some half dozen welfare professionals have all seen a case that clearly evaluates to 'this child needs to be removed' and all done nothing, but ... the odds are low. And the idea that you can't be misinformed because of the frequency of updates? Oh dear. I am sorry that hearing about this woman has impaired your ability to think about welfare as a system. Perhaps you should avoid the topic until you recover your ability to think beyond her.

sisu2019 8y ago
> single most effective interventions for homeless people who take drugs is to give them a place to live Have a fun citation for me on that? Is it effective in absolute terms or just "most effective"? > unhealthy coping mechanisms It's very telling that when you can't get past indivual behaviour anymore you still find a way to put it on the environment. I wonder why there is one group of people, let's call them "victims" where everything they do is readily excused and dismissed, like turning west coast cities into open air toilets. It's like they have no agency at all. It's almost as if the left habitually dehumanizes the subjects of their 'empathy' in the process of advocating their policies. > an immediate risk to their opportunity to develop cognitively or emotionally. No, children are not just taken away in Germany. Period. As long as the child is fed, clothed and free from overt signs of physical abuse it's a process and she is in it. The most charitable thing to say is that you are halucinating some deep knowledge about child wellfare practices in Germany in order to prop up your ideology which can't deal with the existance of this one women, let alone the fact that she is a representative of a large class of people on similar paths. > Perhaps you should avoid the topic until you recover your ability to think beyond her. I think you should avoid any topic as long as you mistake your ideology for actual knowledge of the real world and the real people in it.

sisu2019 8y ago

> single most effective interventions for homeless people who take drugs is to give them a place to live Have a fun citation for me on that? Is it effective in absolute terms or just "most effective"? > unhealthy coping mechanisms It's very telling that when you can't get past indivual behaviour anymore you still find a way to put it on the environment. I wonder why there is one group of people, let's call them "victims" where everything they do is readily excused and dismissed, like turning west coast cities into open air toilets. It's like they have no agency at all. It's almost as if the left habitually dehumanizes the subjects of their 'empathy' in the process of advocating their policies. > an immediate risk to their opportunity to develop cognitively or emotionally. No, children are not just taken away in Germany. Period. As long as the child is fed, clothed and free from overt signs of physical abuse it's a process and she is in it. The most charitable thing to say is that you are halucinating some deep knowledge about child wellfare practices in Germany in order to prop up your ideology which can't deal with the existance of this one women, let alone the fact that she is a representative of a large class of people on similar paths. > Perhaps you should avoid the topic until you recover your ability to think beyond her. I think you should avoid any topic as long as you mistake your ideology for actual knowledge of the real world and the real people in it.