And speaks to this guy's unfamiliarity with/distance from with the sociology of drug addiction and the suffering of the poor. Tops it off with this absurd implication that the "social types" and "classes" we see today are purely the product of genetics.
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Replying to @CasualThonker @arthur_affect and
Which "guy" are you talking about? Scott is the one who liked the charity. That's it. The rest is the blabbering of a possibly stoned internet commenter from 2012.
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Replying to @FakeMeows @arthur_affect and
Despite that, the implication that drug addiction among the impoverished isn't fundamentally a product of socio-economics/drug policy and is instead a purely genetic disposition that could be solved by "voluntary" sterilization smacks of a coddled, elitist mindset
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Replying to @CasualThonker @arthur_affect and
I get it, you lack context and didn't even spend 2 minutes looking up the charity or anything.
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Replying to @FakeMeows @arthur_affect and
A cursory reading of the Wikipedia article includes this quote from the founder: "we campaign to neuter dogs and yet we allow women to have 10 or 12 kids that they can’t take care of". Sound like I was spot on.
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Replying to @CasualThonker @arthur_affect and
That sounds like the woman cares about the kids that are neglected. I don't see any invocation of genetics. She adopted like 6 kids from drug addicts. How many foster kids have you taken in?
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Replying to @FakeMeows @CasualThonker and
Given that we're talking about human parents, not animals, I would consider it far more praiseworthy to be able to brag about helping six parents keep their kids than adopting those six kids, and find focusing on the latter option to be an obvious sign of conflict of interest
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Replying to @arthur_affect @FakeMeows and
What's really appalling, and part of what makes the foster care system so intensely fraught, is that if we gave struggling parents even the resources we gave foster parents, huge numbers could keep their kids.
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Replying to @Eristae @FakeMeows and
Public adoption through the foster system doesn't have the same overwhelming level of perverse incentive as private adoption (especially international adoption) But it's really hard not to see the system as still a transfer program of poor kids to rich families
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Eristae and
The way adoption support payments is fundamentally perverse First you screen the adoptive parents to make sure they have adequate income and don't need the money Then you give them support payments anyway, to make extra sure the adoption goes through and is successful
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In many, many cases you could prevent the problem from arising in the first place and greatly reduce the trauma and disruption to the kid's life by doing the exact opposite (finding any parent who DOES need money because they DON'T have adequate income and just giving it to them)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Eristae and
As it is, adoption support payments are just this incredibly obvious example of "rich getting richer" policies in our society "Do you need money? No? Good, have some money"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Eristae and
While I understand your point, please be careful. There is an issue in child welfare where states will subsidize children in care of strangers - but not children in care of kin. But we know that children do better with kin (including fictive kin).
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