From: Aaron Clark (kuvadin@gmx.net)
Date: Wed Sep 15 1999 - 01:37:33 MDT
Concerning the Children's Rights/what-do-we-do-with-children line of thought, what about a volunteer-run institution, called a Private Youth Development Center, where unwanted children are brought and raised collectively by the community?
Adults approved by the Center's administrators (who are elected by the community), would be able to spend a certain amount of time at the Center with the children or one specific child in particular, providing basic needs, role-model type support, and generally helping out in whatever way they could.
If at some point an approved mentor figure becomes emotionally attached to a certain child, they would have the option of adopting that child into their family.
Centers would be funded with donations from commercial, individual, and private group entities, perhaps with stipulations; an energy company donation would be given to a PYD Center with the stipulation that the Center produce X quantity of students/employees/value for the energy company within a certain time frame. The Center, along with the children, would then be able to choose which children go into what industry or field of study based on the children's abilities.
There are many ways this system could be implemented, but however it would be implemented, it should always retain structural flexibility (A Center's production of value should never be limited to a certain form of output; human, information, product, etc.) and independence from any functional governmental or public interference. Any interaction between a Center an a public entity should be limited to the ensuring of basic human rights.
It sounds like an orphanage, but it also sounds better than 12 year old street kids in large South American cities sniffing glue and selling their bodies for food and more glue.
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kuvadin@gmx.net
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