Detail The nanny state; Bagehot   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 405 no. 8807 (Oct. 2012), page 52. Topik: Social Policy; Families & Family Life; Poverty Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.74 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel The British state has long meddled with poor families. There are currently 66,000 children in care, meaning they have been removed (voluntarily or otherwise) from their biological parents. The majority are shuffled between short-term placements with foster families. This is where the new scheme comes in. For although taking children from their parents may sometimes be the least bad thing to do, the government is, in aggregate, a deadbeat, feckless parent. Children who have been in care are 50 times more likely to go to prison than those who have not, according to calculations by Policy Exchange, a think-tank. They are also 66 times more likely to see their own children taken into care. This is not for lack of money: the average bill for taking a child under the state's wing is Pounds 38,000 ($61,400) per year. Better, then, to employ a latter-day Mary Poppins to nanny a family into staying together. Parents who are at risk of losing their children, their liberty and their housing can choose to enroll in Westminster council's Family Recovery Programme. Most of those eligible have decided to do so. Each family signs a contract. If its terms are broken, the council does what it would have done anyway. So far that has happened to just 15% of the 210 contracts signed since 2008. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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