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Re: Child-welfare fixes taking too long: report (Sept. 27). Both auditor general Carol Bellringer and Liberal Leader Jon Gerrard are missing the bigger picture. While Child and Family Services could be improved, that is not the core problem.
Until politicians are willing to acknowledge the core problem and make some brave decisions to deal with it, CFS will always be a Band-Aid solution.
So what's the core problem? Too many unwanted and uncared-for children.
We need to identify the groups at the most risk for producing children who can't be cared for and focus educational efforts on those groups.
Sex education and parenting education need to start at a young age, and that is where the brave decisions come in. Special-interest groups and those with religious biases can't be allowed to dictate what needs to be taught in schools.
The government, which should be looking at the big picture and not pandering to the 20 per cent, need to say, "We've identified the problem and we're taking steps to better educate our children so that this cycle of neglect doesn't continue."
We can either keep tweaking CFS for the next 300 years or start an educational campaign and possibly have the situation under reasonable control within a couple of generations.
DAVE FERGUSON
Winnipeg
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition September 29, 2012 A16
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