Red Diabla
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Interesting how the stupid choices of others always tends to cost us money though.
Because sometimes those "stupid choices" don't happen in a vacuum, but come from a background of horrific upbringing. So you get generations of abuse in families who see the idyllic family upbringing as fantasy, not something that they'll necessarily be able to achieve themselves. It's not as if domestic and drug abuse, gambling, and family abandonment just popped up in the last century. It's always been around, and that abuse puts a strain on the system and society. And if it was taken care of by Responsible Family Members within all these families in all these societies, then there wouldn't be a need for outside shelters, courts, therapy, etc. to try to break that cycle of abuse and therefore try to ease the strain on the system and society.
To be a man as opposed to a male is obviously a great thing, but sometimes it has to be brought in to families where it's sorely lacking, not just because someone one time made a "stupid choice". I'd rather pay the money now for therapy for a child to help be better prepared for life if they have a crappy home life than pay for their upkeep in prison later.
RD