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[quote=Anonymous]The issues people are raising are definitely big-brother stuff, but they are definitely (depressingly) real.

Imagine a legal regime under which any parent who has two opiate-related convictions immediately has their parental rights revoked and any subsequent children will not be placed in their custody. Such a parent would have to petition the courts to restore those rights.

I would bet, sadly, that this would very likely create better society-wide outcomes for these children.  On the other hand, it is way across the line in a society based on freedom and family.

If you can't do things like this - what do you do?  Essentially, you try to make the parents better people, better at being parents and give them skills to earn more, which generally makes everything better. For the kids you try to help mend the harm and make them see the broader world and that there are ways out of the situation they are in.

For society, you break up concentrated poverty by encouraging mixed neighborhoods, mixed schools.  And don't forget, we somehow need to bring down the percentage of white people who don't want to live with with non-white people above percentage X, Y, or Z, when it's clear that this is leading to self-segregation and conversely concentration of poverty AND social groups at the same time.

I don't know why people don't see this as worth gazillions of dollars and crazy effort at things like school integration (WHICH WORKS!!!!).  They should!  If you take someone and bring them up to their potential, they are productive and bring us all up.  If you let them fester and fail, that isn't just a lack of productivity, it's a loss - so there's a double cost there.

So, I know i am coming in way down the discussion thread after a lot has already been said, but thanks, now I have said my piece.[/quote]

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