Originally Posted by
Geoff Parkstone
Amazingly naive, rA? Tell me more....
I look at Indian and other Asian immigrant groups, West African groups etc and I see an exceptional degree of family loyalty and commitment to look after one another, generation by generation. Its good to see. The basic white English populace seem to have somewhat cynically divorced themselves from any responsibility for their family or extended family, preferring instead to maximise earnings and leave their "duty" to children or the elderly in the hands of others.
Now I fully accept that in a minority of cases, the child or the elderly may well be better off in a care system, but to me (maybe naively?) a lot of those dumped into care (private or public) are so dumped due to your much vilified greed: mostly where couples prefer to both work rather than looking after their own.
Put bluntly, why should I, via the public purse, pay to look after someone else's parent or child while they go off maximising their personal wealth rather than doing it?