Children are hardly property but they are the responsibility OF THE PARENTS to raise, NEVER the responsibility of the taxpayers. If you want to set up a private fund to help these kids, fine. Go for it. I may even help you... as long as you do NOT expect government to rape the taxpayers to help you foot the bills.
I know you can’t be that dense...
me thinks this is the point you may have been trying to make ...
Bonus: It gives the Religious Right somthing to do.
Sure, but the "responsibility" is not private in regards to society, although I agree it should be with regards to the state.
There are two related pathologies here. The one we agree on is that the state should not be involved in such matters -- although in fact it deeply is.
If you want to set up a private fund to help these kids, fine. Go for it. I may even help you...
This is getting at the other pathology. In a social context the acts of the irresponsible parents were immoral and society should not only help the children (yes, privately) but should not be neutral with regards to their behavior.
I agree government should have a very limited role in regards to family responsibility (only interfering in gross cases like severe child abuse), but society should take a less limited role which it sadly has abrogated in favor of the nanny-state. Just who is boinking who turns out not to be an entirely private matter (although the details of how, where, and when certainly are).