I don’t but I fail to see where it should be a taxpayer problem. They are REMOVED from any emotion towards the victim.
If you are saying taht family should be involved in the care of the mentally ill, that could be true, if the mentally ill would let them. You misunderstand the basis of the problem. These people when psychotic are so adversive that mother will turn out child, and voluteers will run away. they are medicated to sleepiness because that is all that some of them can manage sucessfully. And they often dont take their medications without an instituional boatload of assistance from technicians.
And try to get someone on a Haldol or Prolixin depo to understand that the Friday night of fun, drinking with pals on the 7th, will cut the effectiveness of their med on the 30th. Those delusions are very real.
We had one like that.