• BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 days ago

    Nobody says “what about their kids” when a poor single parent stealing food to live ends up in jail and their kids in foster care.

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      They are absolutely thinking of the children. They are thinking about how much more likely they are to end up in the system, more slave labour from the next generation.

    • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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      Those criminals would have raised their kids to be criminals, too. It’s good the kids will be taken away to be raised by a system that will [checks notes] orphan them, abuse them, and raise them to be institutionalised. That will totally fix the problems of generational poverty and waste of societal potential, preventing those kids from becoming adults who have to steal food so their own kids can live.