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I don't think that's necessarily the answer

Posted by redcocoa101 on 2012-January-25 16:55:46 EST, Wednesday
In reply to kids need right to choose caretakers posted by Baldur on 2012-January-25 08:37:48 EST, Wednesday
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I agree that what happened to them is horrible, and they should have had a way out. I just find it unrealistic that being able to choose their own caretakers would have helped them in this situation. That involves them having a family member or someone in their life that can take care of them, and this obviously wasn't the case or they would have fled to those people in the first place. Or those people would have been involved enough in their life to do something. What are they going to do, go up to a teacher and say, want to be my parents? I wish they had better options, but the only option here was for children services to intervine and take them into foster care. Which would have been better than the situation they were in, but they still wouldn't be choosing who takes care of them.

Not to mention a child being able to choose who takes care of them isn't necessarily the best way to stop abuse. In this the kids wanted out but there are many cases of children who are taken away from their parents by children services that would go back in a minute if they were allowed, since children (especially young ones) may love their parents even while being abused by them. I'm not sure what the answer is, but obviously our system is messed up.

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