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2009-08-03 Britain

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Posted by tipper 2009-08-03 08:06|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 I remember the Good Old Days when kids respected their parents and parents were worthy of respect.

Posted by Parabellum 2009-08-03 09:00|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]">[http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/] 2009-08-03 09:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Big brother is watching you poop.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-08-03 10:12|| 2009-08-03 10:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Parabellum, there were good old days like that.

For some.

For others, growing up was hell. I don't mean the hand-wringing, post-existential type of "hell" that modern day progressives discuss in which they were forced to grow up in middle-class suburbs.

I mean, hell, as in abusive, nasty, negligent parents. It's always been thus -- a certain proportion of people have no business creating children but they do nonetheless. One need not go back as far as Dickens to find examples.

Child abuse and neglect is and has been a problem from before recorded history began. It's always going to be with us. I'm not sure that putting cameras in homes is the right thing to do -- in fact, I'm pretty sure it isn't.

But the "good old days" weren't for some.

Posted by Steve White 2009-08-03 11:19|| 2009-08-03 11:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Here's an idea. How about they put them in jail when they break the law?

Posted by tu3031 2009-08-03 11:52|| 2009-08-03 11:52|| Front Page Top

#5 GO TO SCHOOL...GO TO BED...EAT PROPERLY...CONFORM...CONSUME...OBEY!

Posted by tu3031 2009-08-03 11:56|| 2009-08-03 11:56|| Front Page Top

#6 In Soviet Russia, television... ooops.

Posted by Lagom 2009-08-03 13:25|| 2009-08-03 13:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Most parents are doing a good enough job to be going on with. It sounds like these 20,000 families are the worst of the worst, that 10% that cause 90% of the problems. If effective interventions can be implemented there, Britain's child welfare costs should go down significantly... and the children will have a chance to grow up to be reasonably productive and happy human beings. I think the correct interventions are being put in place, too: reasonable bedtime, so the children are able to function mentally and physically; actual school attendance, so the children have the possibility to learn, and learn they can't just float through life supported by the state; and proper meals, instead of living off cheese puffs and fizzy soda, and whatever drugs Mummy, Paul and Eddie left lying about after last night's binge.

The alternative is to take the children and place them with foster families. But we've had articles here about the kind of families British social workers are likely to place their charges with. It's a much better idea, if possible, to fix the families and keep them together. If this little experiment doesn't work, after all, fostering continues to be available as an alternative.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-08-03 14:44|| 2009-08-03 14:44|| Front Page Top

#8 This is asinine! The nanny state at it's worst. If the kids aren't going to school, have the school report the absence and deal with the truancy issue. If the parents are abusive to their children - they are breaking the law. Gather the evidence and deal with the problem legally.

Letting the state spy on people in their home 7x24 without court issued warrant should be anathema to anyone in a free society. Britain badly needs a bill of rights (and a government that will honor it).

Posted by DMFD 2009-08-03 18:16|| 2009-08-03 18:16|| Front Page Top

#9 "Britain badly needs a bill of rights (and a government that will honor it)."

What with the latest Administration and the Donks in charge of ReCongress, so do we. :-(

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-08-03 19:13|| 2009-08-03 19:13|| Front Page Top

#10 What with the latest Administration and the Donks in charge of Congress, so do we

Word!

Posted by DMFD 2009-08-03 19:35|| 2009-08-03 19:35|| Front Page Top

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