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To: E who wrote (18420)	7/29/2002 4:06:49 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

Oh man, I forgot about corn. I've been making wonderful cool salads with corn sliced off the cob, diced tomato, Kalamata olives, fresh mozzarella, basil and red onion in a simple vinaigrette. Great with French bread. About your post: I don't accept that being with their parents is the best thing for all children. Some parents are just monsters, as parents. What should be done about this is a serious question. I certainly agree with you here. What should be important is not the rise of no-parent homes but an imprivement in the care of the kids, parents or no parents. One thought is that good orphanages are sometimes better than the parents; and that parents who have repeatedly proved themselves to be unfit shouldn't be allowed to bar adoption of their children by others who would do a better job. Orphanages as an answer are not good, IMO, as older children tend to recapitulate their abusive parental behavior on younger kids. Foster parents would seem to be a good idea, but there is clearly a problem with supervision. True of orphanages, too, but I think those are more easily monitored. (I say "orphanages" knowing it's a bad word and that most of the children in these child care institutions wouldn't be orphans.) I'd like to see better foster care. I worked with, and sat on the board of, a group home for adolescent girls for a number of years. I liked that system: small groups, less expensive than foster care, with the advantage of a good social milieu. Unfortunately, many of the girls got pregnant at the end of their stay. It really bummed me out to see yet another generation of people dependent on the welfare of the state and church groups spring up.