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Reform Proposal to Help Disadvantaged Children

A reform proposal to help the disadvantaged child would have to include the child who does not have a parent to help him or her on the way to becoming an educated and responsible citizen. Up until the last half of the twentieth century, the child in this category was simply an orphan. Now in the late twentieth century the child's biological parents may well still be alive but be in jail, on drugs, too self-involved to care about another human being (even their own child), or otherwise unconcerned about the fate of the child their actions created.

In line with the political mantra "Every child a wanted child." the government and the schools could take advantage of existing technology and connect the disadvantaged child with adults who actively want to be involved in the child's welfare, even if they themselves were not biologically responsible for him or her. In bell curve sociology, for each of these parents who do not have room in their lives and hearts for a child, there is an adult who has room to spare for an extra child or for a child they cannot have themselves.

I am not proposing adoption in the legal sense but adoption by communication. When Cain asked God "Am I my brother's keeper?" God wanted to talk to Cain about something more important so He didn't answer the question. However, the answer is "Yes." There are many people who are more than willing to help "keep" the disadvantaged child on track with guidance, help, and simply communication. The age of computers, internets, long distance phone lines, etc., makes possible, with governmental monetary assistance, the connection of the parentless child (for whatever reason) with the childless (for whatever reason) "parent."

What this "parent" would be providing would not be monetary. The monetary outlay would be from the government, to provide the computers and uplink. In other words, the "disadvantaged" child would be disadvantaged not in lack of material but in ...

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