Saskatoon Breast better than Nest
The recent SP editorial on the new art gallery and Gerry Klein’s column on group homes described city councillors as standing clear-eyed and valiant against an ill-informed and emotional electorate.
What was most interesting was to have councillors gush like children who had just seen new puppies as they described their visit to the Eagle’s Nest group home. Swept up in emotion, they went on “objectively” to allow the homes to expand the number of spaces.
The one benefit from this public review of the Eagle’s Nest program is that it sets a price on motherhood. The cost per bed at the homes is just over $300 a day. In the absence of adequate parental care from conception to maturity, the societal cost is $9,000 monthly per child.
We have mothers poisoning infants in their wombs with nicotine, alcohol and illicit drugs daily. We have families neglecting, abusing, demeaning, and dehumanizing their growing children until these kids are devoid of emotion. The physically and mentally disabled child then becomes a public charge, and a thriving industry is developed to house this growing population.
To opt to have children in our society is virtually to take a vow of poverty, and in the desperation of poverty, bad things happen, especially to children.
The answer isn’t to be found in more Eagle’s Nests, but at the mothers’ breast. Let’s begin to pay mothers somewhat in proportion to the demonstrated value of the work they do in bringing the next generation to healthy maturity.
Gordon Wensley
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The community of Meadowgreen is located in Saskatoon. The area was formally named Meadowgreen in the mid 1970's when the area south of 18th Street was developed. Prior to the 1970s the area was part of Pleasant Hill. The formal boundaries are 22nd Street to the north, Circle Drive to the west, Avenue W to the east and the railroad tracks to the south. There are approximately 4000 residents in Meadowgreen. Meadowgreen Community Association is a registered non-profit organization.
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Links to Community Information
- Meadowgeen Sign 22nd Street & Witney
- Meadowgreen Newsletter and Calendar
- Worthy Event Ignored
- Treat Every Community Equally
- SCAN -Safer Communities and Neighborhoods
- Eagle Nest Letter to Editor
- Eagle Nest expansion in the news
- Community Crime Statistics
- City of Saskatoon - Community Association Information