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The answer to homelessness begins at home – Michael Morse
By Michael Morse, contributing writer, commentary
Give the homeless a home and you will have a person who leaves that home in search of the substances that created the homelessness.
Put the homeless person addicted to intoxicating substances into a treatment facility funded by tax dollars and staffed with well compensated staff and far better compensated administrators for thirty days and wait for a relapse. Even the most popular and effective treatment programs available, for free, Alcoholics and Narcotics Anonymous boast a 95% rate of relapse.
Peel back the layer of homelessness to find the addiction. Peel back the layers of addiction and you will find mental illness. Peel back the mental illness and you will find the cause; childhood trauma and either the presence of an abusive, weak man or the absence of a strong, caring one.
If the men of the world continue being replaced with government programs they will continue being worthless party boys creating another generation of homeless, addicted and abused people with no skills or clue how to participate in society.
Time to man up. The cavalry isn’t coming. The government is no substitute for fatherhood.
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Michael Morse, [email protected], a monthly contributor is a retired Captain with the Providence Fire Department
Michael Morse spent 23 years as a firefighter/EMT with the Providence Fire Department before retiring in 2013 as Captain, Rescue Co. 5. He is an author of several books, most offering fellow firefighter/EMTs and the general population alike a poignant glimpse into one person’s journey through life, work and hope for the future. He is a Warwick resident.
Read Morse’s columns for RINewsToday, here: https://rinewstoday.com/michael-morse/
The sad reality is men do not have very many rights when it comes to family. From raising a family to divorce and child support men are usually told by the family, society, the courts, government bureaucracies, media, and basically everyone that they are not important to the family unit other than shutting up and paying. There is little incentive for men to raise a family if they arent allowed to actually raise the family. Especially when most marriages are ended by women within the first 6 to 7 years.
True but I have to add that there’s a self-esteem issue involved. There are young girls (which I used to be) who are out there, thinking that they have to have a man in their lives. They end up with a baby that they can’t take care of. If they think that holding onto a man with a baby, it doesn’t work that way.
Some of these girls think that babies are ‘cute’ (which they are) but they’re not dolls. The babies require a lot of work – middle of the night feeding, a firm hand, diaper changing, and the like. They aren’t ‘toys’ to be thrown out when they’re tired of them.
The situation gets promoted now that this is okay when we see TV shows like Teenage Mom. It’s not realistic but we’re bombarded with so-called “reality” shows.
It takes two to tango but where and what have we failed to relay to these kids?
Wow! spot on
Where are these fathers? In some cases, where are the mothers?
The situation was so bad, I remember submitting legislation that passed requiring grandparents to be able to visit their grandchildren, and if they had custody of their grandchildren to be able to count them for the purposes of unemployment and tdi.