If we want upward mobility for the poor, they need transportation and childcare

[Mordecai]

I think, perhaps, that it would be better for those single mothers who were unable to look after their offspring for the state to step in, remove their children, and put them up for adoption. It would be better for both parties.

May I humbly suggest ever so lightly, that maybe--just maybe--government stepping in to make transportation and childcare more accessible to poor single moms just might be a less intrusive and more practical act than government taking their kids away to foster care?

A potential problem with such policies is that they could be interpreted as condoning single parenthood. I mean, free bus passes for single mothers? Free childcare? Not that single parenthood is something that the majority of women, I'd imagine, want to befall them, but attempting to ameliorate such an lifestyle (that of poor single women with kids), is not, in my view, a particularly practical solution to the problem, as its hardly an incentive not to have kids. No, taking children off the hands of single parents and enabling them to be adopted by couples and families of means is a far better solution in my view; the mother no longer has to care for the child; the adoptive couple get a kid. Of course, this wouldn't neccessarily have to be a compulsory program; no, it could just be a voluntary one. Practicability is an interesting point, but I'm not sure of the feasibility of attempting to effect improvements in transportation and childcare facilities for single mothers (such efforts would have to be targeted very specifically).

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