Welfare authority failed children

Welfare authority failed children - report :

"Mr Barbour said 54 of the children who died in 2005 had parents with a history of substance abuse.

Three died from methadone poisoning and 14 had mothers who used illicit drugs or alcohol during pregnancy."

So, what about our parenting skills? What about parents? There doesn't seem to be any requirement to nurture children or care for them. Blaming agencies and making them feel bad will not alter the fact we are creating a society where parents are incapable of nurturing their young and agencies are stretched to their limit. Right across the board young people are at risk and parents and families are the people who have the power to make or break these young lives. At no stage have we been prepared to look at why we have so many parents who can't nurture. Drugs is one reason. But why have we got parents who choose drugs over the lives of their children? Why do we think agencies can fix it? We need to look at how we are bringing people up because right now we are creating peopple who cannot and do not nurture so we are losing our next generation. It's a very fundamental problem. It's about how we structure our society to make it a positive, surviving, growing and developing society. It's about our future. While we are busy documenting this we are not doing and while we are not doing the abuse continues and yet without the documentation we cannot file law suits ...bit late, heh, when the child has not survived. We have a systems problem. All of these children would have had neighbours, neighbourhoods, families and friends. We are all disempowered through our systems.