Reply #18: government assistance [View All]

[katkat]

It ought to be possible to fund kids so that they have nutrition etc. without throwing excess money at them so that the parents are basically living off the child welfare payments and popping out extra kids to get more.

In my heart of hearts, I look at families with many children who don't have a hope of raising them with a good education and the other things kids deserve and who keep producing more kids, and I think the kids would be better off in a caring, well-funded orphanage. That might break the cycle of irresponsibility by giving a generation a good environment.

Before everyone starts shouting, who's better off, a kid in that caring well-funded orphanage getting a good education, or a kid with a drug addicted mother and no father in residence and unsafe streets?