Poor kid

What a thoughtless comment. Let's say he does get addicted to drugs due to depression, anxiety, and PTSD, all of which he has a high risk of developing given what this post shows about his childhood. He tries to seek therapy or other mental health care, but there's little available because addicts, especially those of color, are considered subhuman by many people including, if your comment is any indicator, you. And even if there were good options, his health insurance probably wouldn't make it affordable in the first place. Like most addicts, he'd probably fall on and off the wagon but all the while try earnestly to progress in life and maintain a sense of happiness and normalcy. Let's say he happens to have a child. Let's say he tries to be a good dad and tries to put all of the hope he had for his own life into his child's. However, his addiction keeps cropping up because, as I mentioned, he can't get reasonable access to treatment options, and he's probably too busy to use it anyway because he's working multiple jobs to provide for his kid. Maybe he should gain the skills necessary to get paid more, but his underfunded public school failed him, and his local community college either costs way too much money, or isn't a reasonable option for him because quitting one of his jobs in order to go to college isn't economically feasible for his child's needs. Slowly, he succumbs more and more to his addiction because the hopes he placed in his child, who's likely also growing up in a poor area with terrible public schools just like him, feel like they're fading away. He starts to hate himself because society demonizes and criminalizes his addiction, and he spirals deeper into his depression, anxiety, and addiction. For the record, under the current conditions of American society, he's at a fairly high risk of winding up in this scenario. Would this make him a "piece of human waste?" I have no doubt that it would make him a bad dad - that's just objectively true, and I don't think he'd deny that either. But to refer to him as subhuman would be vile - our society sets people who grow up in his situation to fail. It perpetuates awful cycles that very few are able to escape from. This mother is probably victim of the same cycle. I'm not saying that people aren't responsible for their decisions, I'm just saying that these are all things to take into account. You want to help this kid? Fight to expand funding and access for not only CPS, but also drug rehab programs, public schools in impoverished areas/areas with low property values, mental health care coverage, health care reform, and a higher minimum wage. I can assure you, CPS is not going to be useful, and it certainly won't break the cycle. CPS exists as a bandaid for people like you to point to in order to placate your belief that society already does enough, and stating that it's "the only thing" that can help him is downright ignorant

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