03-27-2013, 04:06 AM
It's never an easy thing -- I wish there was an effective "adult services" as well, but adults are in the "too hard" basket for society. I teach a class of youth, most of whom have been part of the "system" for several years and now we're just trying to help them make sense of a world that really hasn't done right by them. They are rough and several of them look quite unpleasant with their ragged hair and tattoos -- but they're children. Whatever they've done, whoever their parents were, they still deserve a chance to make their own world a bit better. For every horror story about children removed from their homes, there are a thousand more who have really taken that second chance and done their best with it. It was an act of kindness, Amy, kindly meant. That child now has an opportunity to become what she wants to, rather than just what poor circumstance dictates she must.
It could be worse