Do you think this might be of interest to the Nanny State ping list?
Right now this concept is for kids with virtually no parents, and it sounds all benign and good, but the potential exists for all kinds of abuse of the system as the definition of inadequate parents expands.
What next? You don’t like how they discipline? Your religion isn’t approved of? Any other thing they can can get your kids on?
I have often thought that we have two choices for inner city kids. 1) Accept poor performance because home is too chaotic or 2)Get those kids out of their homes.
I honestly never thought it would come to that. I assumed more and more interventions would be offered to families and we would continue generation after generation to accept failure.
Is this closer to the "old days", before we did everything we could to keep families together? Foster care and group homes are notorious for bullies and uncaring adults.
I think I'd rather accept failure. The idea of this gives me a sick feeling in my stomach.