Yeah, my mum used to be a social worker who worked in a children’s care home in the ‘70s, based on the stories I’ve heard about vulnerable children having to share living space with often profoundly disturbed kids who liked to ape the behaviour of their own parents, not to mention growing up being brought up largely by staff who by definition do not have time to give any individual child the care and attention they need to grow up well-adjusted, I’d say that pretty much any parent that isn’t violent or a paedophile is better than growing up in an institution.
“I’d say that pretty much any parent that isn’t violent or a paedophile is better than growing up in an institution.”
I thought many of those institutions were replaced by the foster system, which has its share of abuses. People would collect money for housing kids, and in some cases spend it on themselves instead.