[citation][nom]DDWill[/nom]I absolutely agree with sheshe1. I have read through the article and some of the comments here and I am surprised that Farmville addiction gets the blame for this. This woman obviously has serious psychological problems, and it doesn’t matter if she was playing Farmville or watching her favourite soap on the TV, this was a bad thing waiting to happen. This reminded me of the case earlier in the year when two Japanese parents neglected their new born child and let it starve to death while feeding their virtual baby online. That was clearly a case of computer addiction causing them to neglect their social, and parental responsibilities, but this is not. Someone posted here that the government is to blame and got negative points, but in some small part they are right. It is mandatory in many countries now that teenagers are given robot babies to show them the stresses of raising a child as a young adult, but why isn’t this rule also in place for women at any age getting pregnant for the first time? They should also be given this test the first time they go to their doctor with a positive pregnancy result and have a psychological evaluation at the end of it to see if they can cope with a new born child, and if they cannot, then they should be monitored very closely after the birth. And why isn’t it mandatory that a social worker or councillor visit’s the mother for the first few weeks and month after the mother leaves the hospital, to check they are coping psychologically. If these steps were in place , some of these tragedies could be prevented. This is nothing new, things like this happen every day all around the world, it’s a horrible fact. But this really doesn’t need to be a Toms Hardware article just because “Farmville” is mentioned.[/citation]
Having been the victim of the local DMH and DCFS (Department of mental health and Department of Child and Family Services) I would simply not trust an officer of the state to be able to distinguish a good parent from a bad one. Remember, bad parents often lie, and if you're good enough, you can look better than a good parent.
In this case, that would be a matter of individuals losing their control over their own lives and instead trusting the government to run their lives well.
My mother works with neonatal babies, the premies. Usually a result of drug use during pregnancy, so she sees these types of people all the time and has to release their children to them. In those cases, I wouldn't mind imposing mandatory training sessions that were run by the hospital.
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