I just know that this Guardian article is going to go down well here
(my italics)
See, it's your fault.
There's no point in blaming parents. ... if a parent is not taking care of their child, there must be something very wrong with their own emotional life. ...
In the absence of the biological parent, civil society must become a corporate parent, and the problem is that the corporate parent is failing profoundly...
One problem with the British way of thinking about these children is that, very early on, society places a moral responsibility for the control of behaviour on the child and absolves itself of parenting tasks.
In the absence of the biological parent, civil society must become a corporate parent, and the problem is that the corporate parent is failing profoundly...
One problem with the British way of thinking about these children is that, very early on, society places a moral responsibility for the control of behaviour on the child and absolves itself of parenting tasks.
See, it's your fault.
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