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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 747219" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>I have a cynical way of seeing this. I believe that many people who work in a bureaucracy think in terms of their career, and only in a very circumscribed way, take responsibility. They may fill in the blanks but they do not take real responsibility. </p><p></p><p>My own child from the time he was 2 weeks old until he was 22 months old, and I found him, was just left in a crisis nursery. No attempt was made to place him in foster care, or to terminate parental rights so that he could be adopted. Nor was I (ever) advised of the very terrible medical circumstances of his birth parents, and how he could be affected, and indeed was. How we found out over the course of many years was brutal and horrible. He was abandoned by the system in every single way they could do so. People were indifferent at the time of his birth, when he was a toddler; and this just rolled forward until the whole truth emerged.</p><p></p><p>All of this was indifference and irresponsibility to the nth degree. </p><p></p><p>With respect to your stepson. I think some people do what may be expedient, even to the extent of shirking, if they can. They pass the buck. And put out of their mind, what they can. I do not judge these people. I think I might have been one, many, many years ago. </p><p></p><p>With respect to your stepson, I think there may be a sense of powerlessness and fatalism too: Not knowing what to do and throwing up hands. Basically, a kind of abandonment. Abandoning him. Abandoning you, his parents. Abandoning his victim (what a horrible story) and abandoning society at large. </p><p></p><p>This modern, secular society we live in, that was supposed to delivery us all to some glorious future...has left us, most of us, I think, "hollow men" to borrow a phrase.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 747219, member: 18958"] I have a cynical way of seeing this. I believe that many people who work in a bureaucracy think in terms of their career, and only in a very circumscribed way, take responsibility. They may fill in the blanks but they do not take real responsibility. My own child from the time he was 2 weeks old until he was 22 months old, and I found him, was just left in a crisis nursery. No attempt was made to place him in foster care, or to terminate parental rights so that he could be adopted. Nor was I (ever) advised of the very terrible medical circumstances of his birth parents, and how he could be affected, and indeed was. How we found out over the course of many years was brutal and horrible. He was abandoned by the system in every single way they could do so. People were indifferent at the time of his birth, when he was a toddler; and this just rolled forward until the whole truth emerged. All of this was indifference and irresponsibility to the nth degree. With respect to your stepson. I think some people do what may be expedient, even to the extent of shirking, if they can. They pass the buck. And put out of their mind, what they can. I do not judge these people. I think I might have been one, many, many years ago. With respect to your stepson, I think there may be a sense of powerlessness and fatalism too: Not knowing what to do and throwing up hands. Basically, a kind of abandonment. Abandoning him. Abandoning you, his parents. Abandoning his victim (what a horrible story) and abandoning society at large. This modern, secular society we live in, that was supposed to delivery us all to some glorious future...has left us, most of us, I think, "hollow men" to borrow a phrase. [/QUOTE]
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