This said, some children are genuinely better off in the hands of some state-sponsored foster care (especially more modern ones) than in the hands of some negle

This said, some children are genuinely better off in the hands of some state-sponsored foster care (especially more modern ones) than in the hands of some neglectful/abusive parents. I have always been of the opinion that being a parent is a job that requires certain skills just like any other, and not everybody is well-qualified to do the job well, while the traditional society puts pressure on everybody to take the job regardless, which could be very dangerous. The problem with the abuses that we're discussing, as described by somebody down the chain, could be that the church and the foster care institutes are set up in a way so that they are already designated as "special" from the get go. I still don't know if that what's described in Brave New World, i.e. every child in the whole society being raised collectively, is such a bad idea. The author's apparent derision and demonization of such an idea was the most jarring part when I read the book. In fact, many studies have proposed that the whole idea of "marriage" and "nuclear family" is a quite recent invention, or at least is something that was not shared by all hunter-gatherer societies, many of which did raise their children as a group. In fact one could well argue that the strict adherence to monogamy and to one nuclear family is contrary to the human nature, which the incredibly high rate of divorce in the modern society seems to support to a certain degree. Ironically, the very idea of "marriage" and "nuclear family" seems to be something heavily promoted, even enshrined, by the Christian religions, which themselves committed such atrocious crimes on children. I guess my main point is, your position seems to be one that emphasizes the importance of "family", while I've always been wary of the idea of elevation of "marriage" and "family" as something of a doctrine, even sacred and not subject to any debate. This idea has always sounded very traditional and potentially irrational to me.