GoLocalProv | News | Julia Steiny: Recruiting Family Before Foster Care:
Charles Dickens filled his novels with orphans, who'd "lost their people" by death or other circumstances. The word "Dickensian" refers to a heartlessly industrializing world where such children were liabilities, plain and simple. Actually, our current Congress seems to feel similarly about the hundreds of thousands of kids they're hoping to throw off food stamps and subsidized lunches. We're no longer Dickensian, exactly, but in this economy, compassion costs too much money, plain and simple. I guess we've finally arrived at a post-moral culture.
The Coalition's website explains, "The old assumption was that if a child's parents couldn't care for her, everyone else in the family would have a similarly negative influence — that the apple didn't fall far from the tree. The new conventional wisdom is that having contact with family is critical to a child's identity, and if you haven't found any family members who can be a positive influence, then you haven't looked hard enough."
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