Cultured Views

One has to pity the organisation, DOC’s, in Australia these days. There hardly seems to be a week go by without yet another story of the death of a small child, or baby, following sickening neglect and abuse by it’s mother and her male partner – usually not the child’s father. Of course, DOC’s has been under increasing criticism in the past few years for it’s inability to cope with children at risk and for failing to protect these poor kids from their abusers. Just this past month 4 children under the age of 8 have died appalling deaths having suffered abuse inflicted on them by their parent/s. People ask “Why are DOC’s not acting to save these kids?”. “How did it happen?”. The truth is there are too many neglected and abused children out there and it is societies fault that this is the case. These kids are victims of our irresponsible and loveless society and DOC’s workers have been made the scapegoats.

Many blame the easy and generous availability of welfare payments to young women these days who irresponsibly fall pregnant. Women who cannot even look after themselves are encouraged to have these kids. But how can basic greed for easy money cause a woman to be completely and utterly devoid of the desire to care for and protect her child?.

It is a sad and sick indictment on us all as a society that DOC’s has so many of these cases to deal with. These poor little children are not dying because of DOC’s failure to act, they are dying simply because of the backward step adults have taken in their ability to ‘parent ‘and care for their young these days. In many cases the behaviour of these parents is lower than is found in any other species of animal on earth – no other species wilfully and spitefully turns on its young the way humans do. Society has bred women who have no idea how to care for and nuture a baby, and men who have no instinctat all to love and protect. The only thing these people have in common is their ability to procreate. Unfortunately their human instincts seem to end there.

Somehow society has bred this crisis of human nature, and it is up to society to change itself. Then, hopefully, organisations like DOC’s wont need to exist at all.

Somehow I think I may be dreaming.

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