Foster Care

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/17/national/17foster.html

I don't know when I started using my blog to piss about the news - but anyway.

What this article tells me is clear: we have an enlarging and growing problem with taking care of OUR- COLLECTIVE children. John isn't the responsibility of natural parents who turned to coke, or a welfare agency, or foster parents. He's the responsibility of me, and anyone who reads this. Our nation, we the people of said nation, have a responsibility to take care of each other. Where does this responsibility comes from one might say?

Well, for different folks it'll probably come from different places.
The religious right bastards - your religion tells you to care for children - to care for any who are misfortunate - to care for your brother's and sister's children - to care for anyone in the family - and everytime a child is baptised, a religious community VOWS to support that child. So fuck off religious hypocrites who will read that article as a problem with "Government interfereing" or "Neglectful Parents" and wake up to reality - WE ARE ALL NEGLECTING.

If your not in a religious camp - maybe you're a humanist? We can find roots for responsibility there - or a socialist? communitarian? Laisez-faire capitalist? There is no reason we should not be caring for these children - all of them - all of us. What are the priorities of our society where we ignore the pleading calls of individuals who do not even have legal rights.

We are hypocritical with our Pledge - we ignore immigrants, we ignore oppressed peoples, we support slavery and we have labels to ignore the humanity of others "Enemy Combatant - Terrorist - Gangbanger - Inmate." We ignore dissenters and we defy religious freedom.

If we can be hypocritical on all these accounts - can we not at least take care of the kids?