By Chris Powell
Published: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 10:06 AM EDT
Journal Enquirer, Connecticut
....With "Plan B" the governor proposes eliminating the office of the child advocate and 80 percent of the staff of the state Education Department. Extreme? Not really.
Connecticut hardly needs to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars every year for someone to shake a finger at the state Department of Children and Families every time a child under its supervision is killed or injured. Newspapers do that for free, and the legislature should be doing it, and more -- like wondering whether welfare policy has some responsibility for the culture of child neglect and abuse that has exploded over the last several decades.
Neither does Connecticut much need an education department to remind it every few weeks that children without parents don't do well in school or in life generally. Here too the legislature will have to start reconsidering public policy before anything improves. Just what destroyed the family? What might help restore it? FULL STORY
I left a nice comment there (subject to moderator approval)-
Regarding "....wondering whether welfare policy has some responsibility for the culture of child neglect and abuse that has exploded over the last several decades."
~and~
"Here too the legislature will have to start reconsidering public policy before anything improves. Just what destroyed the family? What might help restore it?"
Just so happens that Family Rights advocates have some good answers-
For instance, parents could receive a WARNING for minor infractions instead of the Great Big Fascist Boot of government and it's malfeasant agents on their necks.
~and~
Perhaps some sensibility about what a "Good Enough Home" is, rather than the artificially high expectations.
We have LOTS more answers, if anybody really cares.
Leonard Henderson, co-founder
American Family Rights
http://familyrights.us
"Until Every Child Comes Home"©
"The Voice of America's Families"©
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