Posted on 08/19/2007 10:32:34 AM PDT by Graybeard58
Among children in foster care, minorities are in the majority. Disproportionate numbers of black and Hispanic households are referred to foster-care officials, are investigated for abuse and have complaints against them upheld by investigators.
Such intuitively obvious facts, gleaned from a recent federal report, are not only news to The Hartford Courant, they're the stuff of banner, front-page headlines. And according to the state Department of Children and its attendant special interests, racism — what else? — is behind these imbalances. To try to reverse them, the DCF spent two years and lots of money developing and implementing a plan that relies heavily on diversity but does next to nothing to get at the cause of the problem.
Is it racist that two-thirds of black children and 62.7 percent of Hispanic children in Connecticut were born out of wedlock in 2004, compared with 17 percent of white children? (Nationally, the rates were 69.3 percent, 46.4 percent and 24.5 percent, respectively) Is it racist that black and Hispanic students are three times more likely to drop out of school than whites? Is it racist that black and Hispanic teens are up to four times more likely to get pregnant out of wedlock than white teens?
When people bring children into this world before they have the means and maturity to raise them, their children are at much greater risk of ending up in foster care. Most women who spawn outside of marriage, and just about everyone who doesn't finish high school, condemn themselves and their offspring to unnecessarily difficult lives. Economic and cultural Darwinism doesn't give a hoot about race.
The foster-care system's demographics are the consequence of the poor personal choices of irresponsible people, not the clichéd boogeyman of race-baiters and poverty pimps. And no government program will ever set things right. In fact, chaining the wayward to the government only magnifies their errors because it removes any incentive for them to become independent and self-reliant.
The DCF and the special interests say the racial imbalance in the system can be fixed with more diversity. A more sensible approach begins with teaching children of all races, unambiguously and repeatedly, that they stray from the time-tested formula for success — finish school, start a career, get married, have children — at their and their children's risk.
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I don't know where to find that Captain Obvious graphic or I'd post it!
Sounds like they're planning another well-meant attempt that will make the problem worse.
Throw more money at it, that always works.
The locus is clear, a distinct lack of Biblical Literacy and the embracing of modern US pop culture and an abandonment of even surface level self respect.
DCF is merely mopping up the results of secular humanism and an insane media vision being project to the American People...
Another good post!
“Is it racist that black and hispanic teens are up to four times more likely to get pregnant...”
Not if one considers that it may be racist to accuse black and hispanics of having no moral upbringing. Of course it is not racist—it’s a “cultural” thing—dontcha know, to continue to make bad choices that further impoverish future nerations.
Ah, diversity, the big scrooge.
“Not if one considers that it may be racist to accuse black and hispanics of having no moral upbringing.”
Now that is a generalization of the article Freeangel, the subject of the article was several fold:
1. Most children in DCF’s custody are minorities
2. Most of the children were born out of wedlock to teen mothers at a greater rate then to white mothers.
“Is it racist that two-thirds of black children and 62.7 percent of Hispanic children in Connecticut were born out of wedlock in 2004, compared with 17 percent of white children? (Nationally, the rates were 69.3 percent, 46.4 percent and 24.5 percent, respectively) Is it racist that black and Hispanic students are three times more likely to drop out of school than whites? Is it racist that black and Hispanic teens are up to four times more likely to get pregnant out of wedlock than white teens?
When people bring children into this world before they have the means and maturity to raise them, their children are at much greater risk of ending up in foster care. Most women who spawn outside of marriage, and just about everyone who doesn’t finish high school, condemn themselves and their offspring to unnecessarily difficult lives. Economic and cultural Darwinism doesn’t give a hoot about race.”
A sound moral foundation would cure those problems, keep your pants zipped and finish high school sans children as well as the literacy that can be found by reading the Bible and applying what is found therein.
The ironic thing (to me) is that DCF didn’t comment on the immorality of what is happening and the “Whys” of how the end up taking care of so many children.
Instead the bleat is “More money you racist society” or “It’s diversity stupid, shut up”.
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