Your concern is well founded- except you haven't cited any alternative support system whatsoever to solve a very real problem. And here in rural 'murkkka, age is LITERALLY not considered a problem at all with many younguns, the teen pregnancy rate, while dropping for the past generation ( just as it has in cities ), is still staggering- and we're talking 12 and 13 year olds and younger, even, with incest being a major contributor, along with caretaker abuse.
Every case of systemic abuse you care to cite will divert from hundreds of instances of children being rescued from terrible circumstances.
I know some kids are far better off being left with their pill-addicted mothers (because so many men will immediately remove themselves from any family role), because SOME of them will clean up rather than just slide in heroin addiction and complete abandonment of the rest of their lives- but most of them, NOT . What to speak of the co-dependency trip and spiral of abuse when fathers DON'T leave but DO take up a heroin habit.
I live in small-town WV, this is what we see every day here. The problems are terrible in cities, here they're catastrophic. CPS is a bad solution in many cases, where in the huge majority of situations there is NO alternative system.
Of course, we COULD just leave the kids in the car when (these are real incidents) both their parents OD, the white slavers will take care of them quite well, as foundlings are a FABULOUS ROI...
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I don't think I have to point out that the dropping teen pregnancy rate is certainly not due to kids having less sex. Or that the CDF is a private 501(c)(3), and CPS is the gummint...
In fact the dropping teen pregnancy rate is due to kids having less sex. This isn't due to sex ed, or any government program.
It's caused by smartphones. Kids are having less sex, going out less, engaging in actual interpersonal interactions less, at every level, because they're on their phones.
Regarding broken families, you fail to acknowledge the reason for this: the welfare state. A poorly educated single mom in WV receives income and subsidies roughly equivalent to $50k/year today. Having spousal and child support from sacrificial sperm donors can significantly increase this.
The destruction of the family is the primary cause of child abuse, and it's being deliberately induced by the exact same forces that are promoting CPS as the solution.
End both.
Problem solved.
a planned parenthood in every ghetto in every major city giving government funded abortions might be helping to reduce the teen pregnancy rate also. The matriarch of democrats that was the driving force behind planned parenthood was one crazy bitch named Margaret Sanger. She was a racist, inspired by the Nazi eugenics program, and hated kids on top of it all. She tried to impose a sterilization program too. Her backwards ass ways are still held in high regards by the likes of Hillary and her libtard cronies. I will never understand how the black community cant see through the bullshit that the democrats throw at them just to get their vote. All they need to do is research racist quotes from LBJ to understand the founding principals of the democratic party
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/29/why-is-the-teen-birth-rate-falling/
The teen pregnancy rate has been dropping for a long time, this has nothing to do with cellphones
While there has been a gradual decrease in every measure of gregariousness, not just teen pregnancy, since I was a kid myself, the marked impact of smartphones is astounding.
Have a read at this article. You'll be safe, it's from The Atlantic - no Breitbart quality shilling here!
Not sure what you mean by gregariousness. While I agree that smartphones are having serious impacts on our culture, I still dont think its safe to say that this is due to cellphone usage.
Interpersonal interaction, face time, people belly to belly. Gregarious people are those that interact socially more.
As TV rose, it very slowly degraded social intercourse. The rise of the internet made it worse.
Cell phones show it might be something that can just be prevented. AR is just coming on the scene, and VR is at it's heels.
It's difficult to even imagine people are going to interact more in person as our phones replace our friends and neighbors.
Have a look at the charts on the link I pasted. It's pretty obvious. If you read the article, it discusses how phones keep us apart, and how that impacts our kids.
It's not a positive influence.