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Financial Support for Unwanted Children

Who should provide financial support for unwanted children?

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Risky Thicket

Risky Thicket

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It has been estimated that approximately 3 million children in the United States live in homes with no parents present. Of those children only about 10% or 300,000 are living in foster homes. Most of the children are living below poverty. What should be done to provide these children with a safe place to live, warm food, clothes and the supervision to insure that they have the opportunity to get a basic education?

Whose is ultimately responsible and where should the financial support come from?
 
How about making sure all women and girls have access to affordable birth control so this isn't a big problem in the first place? Or must our society punish sluts with unwanted children?
 
I assume that most are living with non-parent relatives, like grandparents and aunts/uncles. That they live in poverty does not mean that they are not already adequately provided for via existing programs as those have monetary values not attributed to household income. Someone could live with a grandparent in a nice neighborhood in a nice home and still be technically in poverty if the grandparents are retired. We would need more specific information I think before we could formulate any additional programs to reach them other than to just generically argue for increasing funding for existing welfare programs.
 
Risky Thicket said:
It has been estimated that approximately 3 million children in the United States live in homes with no parents present. Of those children only about 10% or 300,000 are living in foster homes. Most of the children are living below poverty. What should be done to provide these children with a safe place to live, warm food, clothes and the supervision to insure that they have the opportunity to get a basic education?

Whose is ultimately responsible and where should the financial support come from?
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When you say unwanted I assume you mean orphans so I pick the state.
 
Risky Thicket said:
It has been estimated that approximately 3 million children in the United States live in homes with no parents present. Of those children only about 10% or 300,000 are living in foster homes. Most of the children are living below poverty. What should be done to provide these children with a safe place to live, warm food, clothes and the supervision to insure that they have the opportunity to get a basic education?

Whose is ultimately responsible and where should the financial support come from?
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I think it would be best to find parents for adoptions. There are really more than can presently find children.
 
i noticed you didnt have the parents listed as choices

why?

if they are out of the picture as in dead....okay

if they are just irresponsible meatheads.....no

and i mean BOTH parents.......

any monies they are getting from a job, the government, assistance, etc needs to be partly diverted to whomever is caring for the kids

the parents standard of living should NEVER be better than the standard of living for their offspring

after that....any relatives that have the means should take them in....and be helped by parents/governemnt

after that, turn the kids over for adoption
 
Risky Thicket said:
It has been estimated that approximately 3 million children in the United States live in homes with no parents present. Of those children only about 10% or 300,000 are living in foster homes. Most of the children are living below poverty. What should be done to provide these children with a safe place to live, warm food, clothes and the supervision to insure that they have the opportunity to get a basic education?

Whose is ultimately responsible and where should the financial support come from?
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Is there a link?

If they are living with grandparents or other relatives..

Grandparents Raising Grandchildren - Grandparenting - Resources and Financial Assistance
 
joG said:
I think it would be best to find parents for adoptions. There are really more than can presently find children.
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There are a lot of people looking to adopt. It's very tough here in the States so people look over seas.
 
(1) The money to support such children should come from foreign aid and from the expense it costs to have the American military in foreign countries (not from decent pay or equipment from the military, just from what it costs to have personnel overseas). Let countries who want to be fee of American interference run their own countries economically, militarily and socially.
(2) Make adoption easier - ensuring that children are placed in good homes with people who have love to give a child (I am not concerned so much with income....my mum, myself and siblings and my kids grew up in poverty and we are none the worse for it. Poverty sucks but it has a character strengthening aspect to it and love and discipline are more important than money).
(3) Ensure birth control is readily available for everyone (teaching the importance of self-respect and that one's body is not something to be used as a replacement for low self-esteem would not go astray either, even if some think that alleged "sexual freedom" is more important).
 
joG said:
I think it would be best to find parents for adoptions. There are really more than can presently find children.
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No, not really. Most of those want to adopt healthy babies. There is no shortage of teens, adolescent and disabled children to adopt.
 
gdgyva said:
i noticed you didnt have the parents listed as choices

why?

if they are out of the picture as in dead....okay

if they are just irresponsible meatheads.....no

and i mean BOTH parents.......

any monies they are getting from a job, the government, assistance, etc needs to be partly diverted to whomever is caring for the kids

the parents standard of living should NEVER be better than the standard of living for their offspring

after that....any relatives that have the means should take them in....and be helped by parents/governemnt

after that, turn the kids over for adoption
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The parents should be held strictly liable in nearly all situations.
 
WCH said:
There are a lot of people looking to adopt. It's very tough here in the States so people look over seas.
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Yes. so why, I wonder, do they not get the unwanted abandoned children?
 
gdgyva said:
the parents standard of living should NEVER be better than the standard of living for their offspring
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That, unfortunately, is becoming the general state of affairs, rather than the exception for many of todays youth.
 
gdgyva said:
i noticed you didnt have the parents listed as choices

why?

if they are out of the picture as in dead....okay

if they are just irresponsible meatheads.....no

and i mean BOTH parents.......

any monies they are getting from a job, the government, assistance, etc needs to be partly diverted to whomever is caring for the kids

the parents standard of living should NEVER be better than the standard of living for their offspring

after that....any relatives that have the means should take them in....and be helped by parents/governemnt

after that, turn the kids over for adoption
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Statist. Stating. Statism.
 
Phys251 said:
How about making sure all women and girls have access to affordable birth control so this isn't a big problem in the first place? Or must our society punish sluts with unwanted children?
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I agree. And tell Coach Richt I said hello.
 
Risky Thicket said:
It has been estimated that approximately 3 million children in the United States live in homes with no parents present. Of those children only about 10% or 300,000 are living in foster homes. Most of the children are living below poverty. What should be done to provide these children with a safe place to live, warm food, clothes and the supervision to insure that they have the opportunity to get a basic education?

Whose is ultimately responsible and where should the financial support come from?
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We spay&neuter pets: why not the dregs of society who create these burdens on society?
 
Risky Thicket said:
Thanks for asking. I meant to include that. I was rushing out the door as I finished the OP.

Link for the OP.
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A combo of the following:

Biological parents by force of law
Extended family voluntarily
Charities funded in part by faith/community-based initiative resources
Pursue adoption options
The government
 
Risky Thicket said:
It has been estimated that approximately 3 million children in the United States live in homes with no parents present. Of those children only about 10% or 300,000 are living in foster homes. Most of the children are living below poverty. What should be done to provide these children with a safe place to live, warm food, clothes and the supervision to insure that they have the opportunity to get a basic education?

Whose is ultimately responsible and where should the financial support come from?
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1. I'd like to see how that is figured. A child in a house with no parents and not in a foster home is being raised by..... wild dogs? [later edit: this was answered: apparently it means "grandparents". If that is the case, then they are fine - they are being raised by family.]

2. Even Milton Friedman said that children, the aged, and the disabled should be taken care of by society. I don't know why your poll does not allow multiple options, however, so I am left unable to vote.
 
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joG said:
Yes. so why, I wonder, do they not get the unwanted abandoned children?
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Strictly anecdotally, there are some public social workers who.... shall we say.... do not wish to dilute the children's "identity" by placing them with parents of an unfortunately lily hue.
 
Risky Thicket said:
It has been estimated that approximately 3 million children in the United States live in homes with no parents present. Of those children only about 10% or 300,000 are living in foster homes. Most of the children are living below poverty. What should be done to provide these children with a safe place to live, warm food, clothes and the supervision to insure that they have the opportunity to get a basic education?

Whose is ultimately responsible and where should the financial support come from?
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.... how about a special tax on those that want to outlaw abortion....

I realize that is a quip and these things are not that simple; much as simply outlawing abortion is not that simple...
 
You missed the obvious answer: the parents. The time to decide you don't want the child is before the child is born. Once the child is born, it is the financial responsibility of the parents, either until there is a legal adoption, or until the child turns 18. It isn't the job of any of the groups listed to take care of children that the parents decide they don't want.
 
State, local, and federal government as well as charity organizations.
 
cpwill said:
1. I'd like to see how that is figured. A child in a house with no parents and not in a foster home is being raised by..... wild dogs? [later edit: this was answered: apparently it means "grandparents". If that is the case, then they are fine - they are being raised by family.]

2. Even Milton Friedman said that children, the aged, and the disabled should be taken care of by society. I don't know why your poll does not allow multiple options, however, so I am left unable to vote.
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I was in a hurry when I posted it. Mea culpa.
 
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