Not Yours to Give

[kandrathe]

Have you spent a lot of time in low-income schools? I would say that the issue goes far beyond the "few unfortunate exceptions".

Not as much as you, I would guess. I'm looking at overall population statistics, but also anecdotally my observation is that being a poor child doesn't mean your parents are abusing or neglecting you. By and large, the children of poor people are loved and cared for as well as the children of the middle and upper classes. I would also hazard to guess that there might be larger emotional and social issues for the children of richer parents (e.g. latch-key, detachment, narcissism, etc.).

Does the federal government need to watchdog the lives of poor people to insure their children are being fed and raised properly? If so, then perhaps also the children of duel income families? Where does it stop? The boundaries of what is a safety net are quickly moving into a nanny state. At what point will the government just take over the raising of children to insure its done properly? Or perhaps, they just make bad parenting against the law.