Illusory Progress โ Day 36: Youth Care as Salvation? ๐งธ
Short Recap
Weโve already covered leasing, heat pumps, electric cars, 15-minute cities, subscriptions, and the cashless society. Today: youth care.
The Narrative
Youth care is essential and noble. Children who are struggling deserve professional help. More money, more professionals, and more referrals mean better care. Anyone who criticizes it wants children to suffer.
The Reality โ Harsh and Bitter
Layer 1: Explosion of Demand
In just 10 years, the number of children in youth care has doubled. Hundreds of thousands of children are now in some form of care. This is not a natural development.
Layer 2: Money as the Driving Force
The more children are referred and diagnosed, the more money flows to institutions, municipalities, and care providers. Failure = more budget. This is a perverse incentive.
Layer 3: Missing Children
Every year, the police receive thousands of reports of missing children from youth care. In one year alone, there were 1,761 reports from closed institutions (Argos, 2020). Figures circulating around 2,000 children who at some point disappear from view. These are often vulnerable minors who โvanishโ from the system.
Layer 4: Poor to Disastrous Outcomes
Despite billions of euros spent annually, the results are shocking:
High rates of suicide, crime, and long-term welfare dependency among former youth care clients.
Many young people emerge more damaged from placements, with frequent changes of foster homes and institutions.
Overmedication and trauma from the system itself are common.
Layer 5: Parents sidelined & power abuse
Parents are increasingly viewed as the problem rather than the solution. One civil servant or care worker can tear a family apart with a single decision. Criticism often leads to the label โproblem family.โ
This is not a care system.
This is an industry that thrives on dependence, power, and money.
The OIM Way Out
Parents must be primarily responsible again.
Drastic reduction of bureaucracy and the referral model.
Help should be local, small-scale, voluntary, and temporary โ not years-long trajectories with perverse incentives.
Back to the principle: family first, government as the absolute last resort.
Youth care is the ultimate example of illusory progress:
The more we โhelp,โ the more problems we create.
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Question to you
Is the explosion in youth care a sign that we are providing better care, or that our society is failing massively and simply institutionalizing the problem?
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**Illusory Progress โ Day 36: Youth Care as Salvation?** ๐งธ
**Short Recap**
Weโve already covered leasing, heat pumps, electric cars, 15-minute cities, subscriptions, and the cashless society. Today: youth care.
**The Narrative**
Youth care is essential and noble. Children who are struggling deserve professional help. More money, more professionals, and more referrals mean better care. Anyone who criticizes it wants children to suffer.
**The Reality โ Harsh and Bitter**
**Layer 1: Explosion of Demand**
In just 10 years, the number of children in youth care has **doubled**. Hundreds of thousands of children are now in some form of care. This is not a natural development.
**Layer 2: Money as the Driving Force**
The more children are referred and diagnosed, the more money flows to institutions, municipalities, and care providers. Failure = more budget. This is a perverse incentive.
**Layer 3: Missing Children**
Every year, the police receive **thousands of reports** of missing children from youth care. In one year alone, there were **1,761 reports** from closed institutions (Argos, 2020). Figures circulating around **2,000 children** who at some point disappear from view. These are often vulnerable minors who โvanishโ from the system.
**Layer 4: Poor to Disastrous Outcomes**
Despite billions of euros spent annually, the results are shocking:
- High rates of suicide, crime, and long-term welfare dependency among former youth care clients.
- Many young people emerge more damaged from placements, with frequent changes of foster homes and institutions.
- Overmedication and trauma from the system itself are common.
**Layer 5: Parents sidelined & power abuse**
Parents are increasingly viewed as the problem rather than the solution. One civil servant or care worker can tear a family apart with a single decision. Criticism often leads to the label โproblem family.โ
This is not a care system.
This is an **industry** that thrives on dependence, power, and money.
**The OIM Way Out**
- Parents must be primarily responsible again.
- Drastic reduction of bureaucracy and the referral model.
- Help should be local, small-scale, voluntary, and temporary โ not years-long trajectories with perverse incentives.
- Back to the principle: family first, government as the absolute last resort.
Youth care is the ultimate example of illusory progress:
The more we โhelp,โ the more problems we create.
***
You may have noticed that our posts look cleaner on Facebook lately. Thatโs thanks to the new **Nexus Quick Post** tool we built.
Feel free to try it:
https://openinternetmanifest.org/nl/nexus-quick-post
**Question to you**
Is the explosion in youth care a sign that we are providing better care, or that our society is failing massively and simply institutionalizing the problem?
#IllusoryProgress #YouthCare #MissingChildren #OutOfHomePlacement #Bureaucracy #OpenInternetManifest
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