Businesses are more cost effective. Contracting out is more Contracting out is more popular politically than hiring more county workers. You can t really change people. Social work doesn t help. The system is just too dysfunctional.
Social problems are too great to fix.
Increasing spending on the failing child welfare system is like throwing good money after bad. Parents have a right to raise their kids the way they want. There is no consensus on how to raise or discipline children. The child welfare system is an outsider that has nothing to do with the community. Yet the money goes begging.