Honestly the way I think we handle it is by retrofitting schools to accommodate free meals three meals a day, and also living quarters for, blind guess at how much would be enough, a quarter of the school’s student body?
It would involve a shitton of training of overnight staff and security, but I’m pretty confident that the threat alone that all the kids could wind up permanently out of their greasy hands and have an option for safety will go a long way to scare abusers straight.
If for nothing else, than because abusers tend to be too clever for their own good by half and are always doing what they think falls just shy of drawing legal attention, or making due with threats about what will happen to the kid if they rock the boat with nowhere to swim for safety.
I’m a firm believer that if the cast out child burns down the village to feel its warmth, then we ought to be handing out torches! Giving abused children the power to escape and also to break their siblings away from their parents instantly makes outsider kids everywhere a lot more able to take the respect as a human being they should have been getting from the start.
I’m a firm believer that if the cast out child burns down the village to feel its warmth, then we ought to be handing out torches! Giving abused children the power to escape and also to break their siblings away from their parents instantly makes outsider kids everywhere a lot more able to take the respect as a human being they should have been getting from the start.
It’s bold. I like it. I would support a well thought out and designed plan of this nature 100 percent.
The snag I’m thinking of would be infants, going to the extent of making sure they can’t even keep the kids they try to replace the escapees is cathartic and thorough, but dang am I not even remotely sure what infrastructure would be needed to accommodate literal fresh out the womb infants becoming wards of the state. Even with the infrastructure, how do you raise kids from birth without the direct parental figures we usually just take as a given?
We gotta make sure they’re safe from their psycho fundie parents, but then we have the problem of probably having to reinvent child rearing entirely to make sure they can enter society as well adjusted as their peers who’s parents aren’t the scum of the earth.
Also, deprogramming, because odds are that those parents were poisoning the siblings against the child who pulls the rip chord, and associating that kid with “destroying the family” probably won’t help that poisoning, kids from intervened families who aren’t abuse victims themselves or who experienced abuse in ways that alienated them against the family whipping stool will need special attention to get them to unlearn the hate.
Honestly the way I think we handle it is by retrofitting schools to accommodate free meals three meals a day, and also living quarters for, blind guess at how much would be enough, a quarter of the school’s student body?
It would involve a shitton of training of overnight staff and security, but I’m pretty confident that the threat alone that all the kids could wind up permanently out of their greasy hands and have an option for safety will go a long way to scare abusers straight.
If for nothing else, than because abusers tend to be too clever for their own good by half and are always doing what they think falls just shy of drawing legal attention, or making due with threats about what will happen to the kid if they rock the boat with nowhere to swim for safety.
I’m a firm believer that if the cast out child burns down the village to feel its warmth, then we ought to be handing out torches! Giving abused children the power to escape and also to break their siblings away from their parents instantly makes outsider kids everywhere a lot more able to take the respect as a human being they should have been getting from the start.
It’s bold. I like it. I would support a well thought out and designed plan of this nature 100 percent.
The snag I’m thinking of would be infants, going to the extent of making sure they can’t even keep the kids they try to replace the escapees is cathartic and thorough, but dang am I not even remotely sure what infrastructure would be needed to accommodate literal fresh out the womb infants becoming wards of the state. Even with the infrastructure, how do you raise kids from birth without the direct parental figures we usually just take as a given?
We gotta make sure they’re safe from their psycho fundie parents, but then we have the problem of probably having to reinvent child rearing entirely to make sure they can enter society as well adjusted as their peers who’s parents aren’t the scum of the earth.
Also, deprogramming, because odds are that those parents were poisoning the siblings against the child who pulls the rip chord, and associating that kid with “destroying the family” probably won’t help that poisoning, kids from intervened families who aren’t abuse victims themselves or who experienced abuse in ways that alienated them against the family whipping stool will need special attention to get them to unlearn the hate.