re: What Is Society’s Responsibility When the Foster System Fails?

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I didn't raise this person. I don't know anything about his high school experience. I don't know what happened to the baby. I wasn't there when he was injured or when he passed away.


that's because as in all your hypothetical situations you've made them up out of then air

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She made all this shite up.

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No doubt.

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They could do both, adding trade schools access as the kids get into Jr High range to see who has aptitude for what. High school would then add a focus for trades, continued military progression or college prep.

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Liberals would rather the kids be homeless than trained to be soldiers.

Dated a woman who represented kids in the system or at risk. I don’t know how she did it.

Attributing violent crime to poverty and lack of opportunity is correct- except you are selecting the wrong kind of poverty. His poverty is a poverty of character and the implication that he is on some inevitable path to victimizing people is an insult to disadvantaged people who don’t victimize others.

The fix is imperfect at best and probably will remain tragic as The State is incompetent.

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How exactly is it that you came to “understand” that an 18 year old possibly has no “options” but to resort to armed robbery?

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A homeless teenager robbing someone doesn’t shock me. Apparently I’m in the minority because several posters are having a really hard time processing that a homeless teenager robbed someone.

I work with at risk teenagers. Most have been in state custody at some point. Giving these young people the skills to live as productive adults is important. They need functional independent living skills and marketable job skills in order to have the best chance of positive adult outcomes.

I worked for a place that was built to house the nine worst, most violent, older male foster kids in the state of Louisiana back in the day. It was the most soul destroying place for everyone involved. These kids had been in the system forever and were completely institutionalized. Extremely violent. Psychotics. Lots of victims of sexual abuse and worse. That was back in the 90's but we knew that those kids were probably not going to make it. And I doubt any of them did. But they definitely made society worse when they got out in it. I'd read about them now and then. Killing people. Robbing. Dying.

We were glorified bouncers that held therapy sessions when not wrestling some nut into restraints five times a day.

Those kids have no chance. I hope it's better nowadays, but I seriously doubt it.

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You know the dude is in trouble for the dead baby... and the baby had a brain bleed... but you don't know how the baby got the brain bleed? Really?

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I subscribe to the local newspaper. All of this information was reported there.

I'm sorry if I gave the impression that I was with the baby when he was injured or died. I wasn't there.

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This alone says quite a bit.

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A significant number of homeless people struggle with untreated mental illness and/or substance abuse. I am not shocked when I hear of a mentally ill person or an addict committing a crime. Judge accordingly, obviously.