Question

Some questions...Is the HFA home visiting program in all the states and counties?  Are parents offered the program because they've hurt or endangered their children?  What other reasons are parents offered the program?  Can parents refuse the help? 

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My first gut guess is that, systemically (at least in the US), the dominant paradigm is child protection services. In America, we do two things...

1) We infantilize children.
2) We place enormous and unjust personal responsibility on adults.

The script is to save the child from the parent until the parent, themselves, puts in the work to "deserve" the child again. Don't ask the child what they want. And don't ask the parent how they got where they are.

Turned the rest of my reply into a blog post that can be read here...

The America "Dream" of Children Needing Saving and Parents Deserving Blame