Viewers of Channel 9’s Today show have been left divided after conservative columnist Miranda Devine suggested an ice-addicted couple be sterilised in a bid to avoid them having any more children.
Over the weekend it was revealed the Sydney couple previously had eight children taken away from them due to family violence and drug addiction, but had been appointed a full-time care worker to help them look after their ninth child.
“How can someone who is ice-addicted look after a child?” Devine asked Today host Lisa Wilkinson on Monday.
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I think there must be a more humane way of minimising the number of babies born to drug addicted families.
An overhaul of the drug rehabilitation services may be a good place to start. We don't have enough spaces in the services available meaning that the young new users are ignored until they are chronic with severe brain impairments, there are huge wait lists on Rehab services, and the majority of services that are available are poorly funded meaning that the clients dont get all the help they need, which increases the risk of relapse. Also most services are completely voluntary meaning that the person can walk out as soon as things get tough or uncomfortable, Which is what they often do.
9 children and they're still not clean. I've worked in drug rehab before and every single female in the facility had implanon. If they refused then that their right but they were referred onto elsewhere. It was explained to the most that the last thing you need is pregnancy when in early recovery . Nearly all were wanted to come off drugs so they complied . This woman should have had implanon some where along the line