Lethal Injection Under Fire Again

[GriffonSpade]

When all parents fail, we're doomed as a species. While you can be faithless and critical about parents as you'd like, the government will is guaranteed to do worse.  Go investigate the child services branch of your state or local government. It is guaranteed to be full of nightmare stories.

For one, I do not wish an McCarthyist or authoritarian government which can override parental judgement at any time and take away kids from their parents at the government's whim. The governement's power over our lives should be limited, and not extended, especially over family domain.
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Yes, essentially, we live like this: You can do whatever you want, as long as you do exactly what we(those in power) want you to.

Yes, and ironically the ones that need it the most, ones treated extremely poorly in horrible conditions are often not helped because of the low standards in them, while people with comparitively minor problems outward, in the suburbs and the like, are essentially harassed in some cases by social workers that are know-it-all control freaks.

(Particular horror story my math teacher had when he was, if I remember correctly, interning in social services, is that a heroin addict prostitute had a daughter, and they were PAYING her, supposedly to help the baby, however she was spending it on heroin, and when she was out of money they'd bring her more! and he brought it up with the board or whatever they are, but they told him, basically, to drop it and that she was "improving," that is only using it once or twice a week instead of every day! This was apparently not enough to take the child away. However, the daughter was raped by one of her mother's "clients" and she said she didn't know about it, so the baby was finally taken away for NEGLIGENCE. However, the grandmother got custody of her....and the grandmother lived with the babies mother. Truly horrifying, yet nothing was really done, and this is probably a decade or 2 ago, though I seriously doubt it has changed all that much.)