[ It's not that nobody cares about the kids who come through — in some cases, it's the opposite. So many people care, but it spreads responsibility too thin, weaving a net so wide that it catches nothing. They might get put in a house with adults now, but what happens when those guardians disappear? Who talks them through those loses and regains? They might get enrolled in school, but who helps them catch up when they lose weeks or months of classes to port-outs, or kidnappings, or some other disaster? How do they adjust if their friends skip forward years and decades on them, and they're left behind? ]
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Date: 2019-08-29 09:36 am (UTC)Nobody ever focuses on the right things.
[ It's not that nobody cares about the kids who come through — in some cases, it's the opposite. So many people care, but it spreads responsibility too thin, weaving a net so wide that it catches nothing. They might get put in a house with adults now, but what happens when those guardians disappear? Who talks them through those loses and regains? They might get enrolled in school, but who helps them catch up when they lose weeks or months of classes to port-outs, or kidnappings, or some other disaster? How do they adjust if their friends skip forward years and decades on them, and they're left behind? ]
We should trade notes later.