It takes a village

Here is a follow up to the idea that we as a society need to look at who has the "right" to have and raise children. A shout out to people like Pam Roach, who killed the foster parents rights bill because it gave rights to non-family members. Warning - The news story included within is kinda gross..



Basically we've got a story about a "grandmother" in south seattle who fed the children placed in her care poop then had sex with them over many years. And of course the police certainly (and likely DSHS) knew about it and did nothing.

Apples dont fall far from the tree

IMHO "family" is an archaic idea from when communities were tiny villages. As time marches on and society/population grows we need to evolve. The solution to bad parenting is not to put the child with the parents of that bad parents. Placing that child outside the gene pool of that family is a start, since the apple doesnt fall far from the tree, but it is still a dice throw that the people you put the kid with wont be as broken as the bio family.

The solution in my opinion is boarding schools. Distribute the parenting responsibility over a broad range of people and reduce long periods of time spent in one place by the child..its still possible bad things could happen but there are a whole lot more eyes on said children and at least bad things will happen less often and over shorter periods of time before they are stopped. Hopefully loyalty of the child will be spread out over a number of people so that the child is less willing to put up with weirdness and less concerned about losing that person in their life.