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So, you are saying that there is absolutely, positively no case where the county should step in? I mean, even if the kid was heading to ruin at the hands of neglectful parents? I'm not talking about the Toogoods now, I'm talking about a little boy that I know personally, who would be infintely better off in Foster Care.

Oh, and I'm not sticking around to debate this one; I know what I see, cut and dried. There are cases such as these.

I am not saying that kids are ALWAYS better off with their parents. Not all kids are wanted by their parents and not all kids are loved. I do not believe that parents are entitled to torture their children, rape them, starve them or lock them in a cage. We are all reasonable people and we usually know right from wrong and good from evil.

The author writes about the 'cultural' trend on relying on the state for help on issues that shuld be and WERE addressed by the individuals themselves or the family or, perhaps, the community (meaning the neighborhood). The state used in to be called to punish crime and to protect us from criminals and to keep the foreigners (also known as 'strangers') on the other side of the border. The state is no longer a service provider. It is a gigantic super-entity in the process of taking over everything we used to claim as ours. Including our family, our children and our very morals. I guess we are a tired civilization and we no longer give a damn. If the state wants to educate our kids... let'em. Who are we to say what's good for the kids. After all, we don't OWN them. Right? The state does.