@dantheman There used to be a "parenting right" that could not be infringed. However those days were back when most folks in a town knew each other. A grand parent, or aunt or uncle, or neighbor could step in and give advice when they saw abusive or deplorable conditions and that would be enough to change the behavior in the offending parent.

Our society has decided that this system didn't scale. So now we have a nanny state where a homeless family can lose their kids if they seek help instead of actually getting a hand up.

Now we live in a world of "hand outs, not hand ups". You have to rely on the state to be the judge, jury and executioner of what is and is not good parenting. You have to rely on the state to select "better parents than you", and then pay them money to raise your kids for you while you are now "in the system" and trying not to get lost in the shuffle.

That is the world we have made. Only we can fix it.
Only way to fix it is to decide right here, right now that we're going to change it.

Steemit is a great step in the right direction, but more needs to be done.
As a society we need to move away from "What can I get from my neighbor?" attitude to "What can I do for my neighbor?". At that point we're no longer the same person, we're better.