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From a parent's point of view, what would be the point of having kids if you're just going to ship them off to an orphanage for someone else to raise? Most people have children because they want to have children, not because they want to prop up the government's social-welfare programs. The OP's plan would reduce parents to mere breeders and nothing else. Hardly an attractive prospect for most would-be parents.
Of course, there's a middle-ground approach, wherein kids are gathered together in group settings during the day, but then redistributed back to their parents at night and on the weekends. It's called "school."
This is one of the most ridiculous, naive, and uninformed posts I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of ridiculous posts.
I wouldn't go that far. The OP does not have children, and who knows, for all we know maybe his childhood was such that he would have preferred to have grown up in a group home. And certainly, his premise has appeared in enough works of fiction that it seems reasonable for someone to wonder what would happen if it were tried in real life.
I think we all agree that his idea would not work, or at least would be worse than how things are now. But I see no need to insult the OP. Just answer his question.
I wouldn't go that far. The OP does not have children, and who knows, for all we know maybe his childhood was such that he would have preferred to have grown up in a group home. And certainly, his premise has appeared in enough works of fiction that it seems reasonable for someone to wonder what would happen if it were tried in real life.
I think we all agree that his idea would not work, or at least would be worse than how things are now. But I see no need to insult the OP. Just answer his question.
I wouldn't go that far. The OP does not have children, and who knows, for all we know maybe his childhood was such that he would have preferred to have grown up in a group home. And certainly, his premise has appeared in enough works of fiction that it seems reasonable for someone to wonder what would happen if it were tried in real life.
I think we all agree that his idea would not work, or at least would be worse than how things are now. But I see no need to insult the OP. Just answer his question.
Bad life experiences are often the birth of some really incredible new beginnings. This frankly bizarre post you've created, however, will not fix whatever happened to you. I'd suggest some therapy and church; worked for me.
You mean a place like boarding schools? There are pluses and minuses to that system. The English middle and upper class probably have the longest experience as a culture with boarding schools.
So your idea is that it's okay to take kids away from people that do a great job at parenting to put them with some unknown strangers because some people are not good parents?
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense...smh
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