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Biden Administration to Overhaul Welfare Following ProPublica Reporting
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Interesting, I'm glad I got your perspective in addition to the article, thank you. The article clearly has an opinion and doesn't treat the issue neutrally.
You said it's true that the bad decisions these parents make are due to social problems linked to their poverty - sure it's not "directly" the cause, but wouldn't making sure this funding helps those families reduce the chances of them making those bad decisions?
I'm sure even if we helped impoverished families as much as we could financially, there would still be a need for CPS to step in and protect children. So it seems like both need funding. But since this money was meant to help families in poverty, using it instead to boost CPS does seem wrong, in that right-wing "punish people instead of improving society" kind of way.
Funding is insufficient to address the problems I pointed to in my comment. It's not about money; it's about parenting and the related psychological skills. The only thing that can address that is complex social support; not just teaching of specific skills but relational improvements. I'm a therapist in a community mental health clinic. In addition to definable psychiatric disorders, I can tell you that at least half of what we treat is effectively the psychosocial consequences of generational poverty. In other words, we deal with "ghetto", "ratchet," "x-trash" people. These are people who don't necessarily qualify for any psychiatric diagnosis, but are nonetheless folks who no one wants to deal with in life. They're the products of bad parenting, who haven't been taught how to manage their emotions, and thus react in extreme ways to minor stressors, which makes them an annoyance and a threat to people we consider "normal." These folks need re-parenting. They're broken in a real sense, and I don't put it that way to diminish them. They weren't given the things we take for granted, and as such they can't function in ways we expect them to. And it's not fair to expect "normal" people to tolerate them either, because those "normal" people weren't prepared to deal with them. This is a hugely complex problem and it requires a solution that likely requires decades to fix, because it is generational in nature.