Originally Posted by jgw
That was my basic point. orphanages are probably cheaper to maintain. I suspect they are also better than what they kids have to deal with right now. I'm not saying that there aren't good foster parents but there are a LOT of really bad ones as well. An orphanage, on the other hand, will have rules, regulations, investigations, and reports. What we have now is a disaster. I have often wondered if anybody has done a study of children graduating from a foster home to see what the results of being fostered really are. Then I googled: "children raised in foster homes". Here is the first one I got: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S019074091730213X

There were a lot more and the results are not all that good. I actually knew of one foster mother who was the wife of the local safeway store and she wanted the money to spend on herself.

Wishful thinking in this day and age.
If we wind up with orphanages again, they will wind up being run by something like CCA, Corrections Corp of America.
An outfit LIKE CCA will probably lobby HARD for the contract and they will use corrections people to design and run them. So in the end, that's what orphanages WILL wind up like, complete with the overcrowding, lousy conditions and lack of accountability that ALL private prisons are famous for.
And they will demand, and GET, the right to SUE states that don't KEEP the beds filled.

What's the difference between an immigrant detention center and a modern day orphanage? No illegals.

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