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The challenge is for governments to step in when people's families can't cope and fall apart, as many do,  and as this kid's did, and that is not easy. Most societies in the world don't even try. If you don't have a family to take care of you, you're dead, period.

In this case, our society paid $8,000 a month for a "caregiver", but the latter didn't do his job, and other bureaucratic procedures failed. bureaucracies are terrible substitutes for caring family members.

I hope that "caregiver" gets the kind of punishment he deserves.