The mistake with the bootcamp....

[Lilith7]

I haven't seen any statements by Chloe about the appalling parenting skills some families exhibit. Or about the laws around fostering.

I do know there have been a lot of articles and investigations of the way some social workers choose to break up families and remove children, including newborns, rather than seek other ways to support families.

But then, I guess it's cheaper to do that than put parenting classes into schools, or provide mentoring for new mothers, or to actively protect them from aggressive males in situations poisoned by drug addiction, crime, and intergenerational trauma.

Whatever it is, our record is one of the worst in the western world. But no one seems to care about that. Back under the last government, or this one.

Absolutely agree; all of those plus education about addiction,which most of us tend not to know much about. But,given that its a genetic disease, we really should, since its likely to affect us or someone we know at some point during our lives. The risk is somewhere between 40% -60%.

https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/...ion/genes/

The other thing about our idiotic system is that under Neo Liberalism, all those things offer a chance to enrich some; there's money in prisons, (& sooner or later they may even get around to emualting the USA & force prisoners to work,win win...) there's money in education & there's money in health.

Any minute now they'll have orphanages & workhouses wiith the inmates obliged to work...serfdom around the corner...



"The danger is here, for two men are not as lonely & perplexed as one. And from this first ‘we’ there grows a still more dangerous thing:”I have a little food” plus “I have none”.
The baby has a cold. Here, take this blanket. Its wool. It was my mother’s blanket – take it for the baby. This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning – from ‘I’ to ‘we."
The grapes of wrath, John Steinbeck.



‘If he’ll take twenty five, I’ll do it for twenty. ‘No, me. I’m hungry. I’ll work for fifteen. I’ll work for food.
And this was good, for wages went down & prices stayed up. The great owners were glad & they sent out more handbills to bring more people in. And wages went down & prices stayed up. And pretty soon now we’ll have serfs again....

And now the great owners invented a new method. A great owner bought a cannery. And when the peaches & pears were ripe he cut the price of fruit below the cost of raising it. And as
cannery owner he paid himself a low price for the fruit & kept the price of canned goods up & took his profit.

And the companies, the banks worked at their own doom & they did not know it.The fields were fruitful, & starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full & the children of the poor grew up rachitic, & the pustules of pellagra swelled on their sides. The great companies did not know that the line between hunger & anger is a thin line. And money that might have gone to wages went for gas, for guns, for agents & spies, for blacklists, for drilling. On the highways the people moved like ants & searched for work, for food. And the anger began to ferment."
The grapes of wrath, John Steinbeck.