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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (6330)	2/22/2001 10:45:04 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 82486

Karen I think the type of messages you are suggesting should not be given out routinely. There are people who are very unready to be parents and your right that perhaps we shouldn't be encourageing them but most people who have children either are somewhat ready or will become ready when the child forces them to. I don't think we need to make a big effort to discourage people from having kids in general esp. if we have to be impolite about it. I agree with you about support for adoption. It often involves too many hoops to jump through and sometimes it is discouraged in favor of abortion, or having a too young or otherwise unsuitable parent raise the child. I think society also has to lose it's bias toward keeping families together at all costs. I'd get kids out of bad situations and terminate parental rights much more quickly than we apparently do now. There are definitely cases where too much effort was made to keep a child with his or her abusive parents, but sometimes bad mistakes are made in the other direction as well. I would be very careful about changing this too much. What I think should be changed is the quality of decisions that child protective services can make. This might involve trying to get better people, it also might involve more people in areas where each case worker has so many clients she cant really know anything about most of them. I would like to see the total number of mistakes go down rather then try to reduce mistakes in one direction at the expense of increasing them in the other. Tim