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The author of the article suggesting forced adoptions insists, “Freedom and compassion are two of the things I believe in most passionately and this proposal is entirely at odds with both, or so it seems. The image of little children being 
wrenched from the arms of their distraught mothers is one of the worst one can imagine. The recent re-showing of the famous film Cathy Come Home reminds us of the monstrous cruelty of a woman forced to give up her children by an autocratic state. It was particularly harrowing because Cathy and her husband were loving parents; their only “fault” was that they had no home. With somewhere to live they would clearly have been good parents.”
She goes on to say:
However, the parents of some of the criminally violent young people of today are not like that at all. Some of them are not worthy of the name of mother or father. They beget and give birth to their unlucky babies but do little or nothing beyond that for them. Some of those babies, given the extreme disadvantages of their upbringing, will grow up to torment, hurt and kill.
All too often when a shocking murder is reported, it emerges that the killers had a background designed to produce such semi-psychotic violence; there were clearly problems in the backgrounds of teenagers Donnel Carty and Delano Brown, who stabbed Rhys Pryce. But remember, too, the stories behind the killers of so many other high-profile victims.
Murders like these are the worst of it, but a great deal of lesser violence goes on as well with ritual juking, shanking and boring — slang for knifing people. Sometimes it’s associated with robbery, sometimes with “disrespect”. At other times it is senseless — the result of family breakdown and the tragic personal disorders that follow.
Recently, the Economic and Social Research Council came out with results of research that found that violent street crime is not committed out of the want or need of money, cell phones or nice watches, but rather, “for fun”.
The author adds:
We could demand to know where the criminal justice system was in all this or why there are not police on the streets. But we don’t often demand an explanation from the parents.
… I’m talking about parents who are pretty much in their right minds, when not high on drink and drugs, and who choose to neglect their children, and who, neglecting or abusing those they have already, go on to have more.
I mean parents who cannot be bothered to feed their children, to stay sober for them, to stay at home for them, to take them to school, to read to them, to take them to the doctor or the dentist. I mean never-married parents, with no standards, who have a string of partners coming and going, who have babies by different lovers, who are careless if those itinerants abuse their own children, who are running welfare scams or living by crime. What hope is there for their children?
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