ProudKangaroo wrote on Sep 20
th, 2024 at 7:48am:
Things I've read advocated for on this forum include,
Segregation
White Australia Policy
Genocide
And now a new Stolen Generation?
I didn't have that on my bingo card.
Government is still taking kids away from their parents, and placing them in foster homes.
Race aside, it is sometimes sadly necessary. Parents can be abusive or negligent, below the provable standard necessary to prosecute them.
Child protection is the worst nightmare of a social work student. Child protection has the best and the worst of social workers: those who accepted the challenge, and those who were not good enough to work with adults.
Child protection is the worst kind of work. Even when they succeed in keeping a family together, there may be bad outcomes. Dysfunctional families are very bad for children, but quite often foster families are worse.
In the future, being a parent will be sought-after job, requiring qualifications. In the future, most children will come from families of four or more children. In the future, we will rise above this populist notion that everyone can be a parent, or deserves to be a parent. Not everyone can do it well, and we see the evidence all around us.
Oh, and we will free ourselves from the stupid notion that to be a good parent, someone has to hold some other job. Being a parent is an IMPORTANT job, it's ESSENTIAL to society, and society should pay.