A Failure in Parenting

Kate, at Small Dead Animals dissects a recent tragedy in Saskatoon:

These enlightened attitudes towards "families in poverty" of the past three decades have failed. Welfare and treaty based payments have turned childbearing into a cottage industry. Youth crime has not abated — it has worsened, in both scope and severity. In addition to unabated rates of property crime, we have Indian gangs running the streets of Saskatoon. They have graduated from stealing cars and vandalism to home invasions, stabbings, sawed off shotguns. Your grand social schemes are killing people and failing children.

The question of how we failed Delores Bird can be answered in the question no one has asked.

When are criminal charges going to be laid against the mother?

That's who failed Delores Bird. If the person responsible for the care of this little girl isn't guilty of criminal neglect, I don't know who is.