ONLINE FEEDBACK
Published:Monday | July 12, 2010 | 12:00 AM
ONLINE FEEDBACK
Below are excerpts from comments posted by online readers reacting to the lead article in Sunday's Gleaner about nearly 100 children dying in state care over a three-year period.
What criteria for state custody?
I would like to know what are the criteria for the Government to take children from their parents into state custody?
There must be criteria and categories for different kids and what they have done and why the parents somehow seem to abandon them, too. We need to know what the real situation is and find solution to some of these problems.
This seems like the people who are entrusted with the care of these kids are in these institutions "just for the titles and the paycheques"!
- Noshel
Great concern
This article should be of interest to all Jamaicans who are concerned about the welfare of our country. Instead of sitting down on our couches in our air-conditioned homes and griping about the politicians, let's do something constructive with our time and rally the Government and Opposition party to do something about the indigents and children in the care of the state.
For too long, these children have been abandoned and left in the care of the state where, mostly, their living conditions are worse than an animal's.
- Maureen.
A great shame
What shame we must bear in this land of ours when we treat our children, especially the destitute ones entrusted to the care of the state, so callously. It is not their fault why they are even born, they had no choice in the matter.
It is not their fault that they became wards of the state and I am sure none of them asked to be; and yet, this how we treat them.
- Dranks
Heartbreaking
I cannot understand or fathom why a state-run home cannot keep our children safe? How are these institutions set up? Is drowning a natural cause? Pneumonia is curable.
This is truly heartbreaking news, to say the least.
- Monica
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