Have it your way ... whatever that is ... .
This is so typical of today's society ...
enlarge the “nanny state” and dump the problem there and wonder why things don't change ... the problems only get worse ... . Lastly, personally vilify me for even suggesting the responsibility rests with the family.
I think you have it wrong.
I see no problem with a family paying to institutionalize their family member. No reason for the state to take on the burden. We care for our seniors, why not care for those who are ill.
The problem is that because the system is the way it is, there are NOT institutions to put them into. We fought to find one young man a group home to go into. Weeks and week while he ended up hospitalized for suicide attempts over and over (one was a Drano consumption that did damage that could not be undone). There was no where to put him.
Understand, there were five children in this family. All grown and all taking care of him in shifts. They still couldn’t overcome his desire to punish himself for his imaginary transgressions.
personally vilify me for even suggesting the responsibility rests with the family.
What you dont seem to understand is that in many cases the families have done MAXIMUM. What you are saying is similar to saying that when a person commits a crime against society that their FAMILY should take care of the issue.
Although I do not equate MI with criminality although there is sometimes overlap, there are somethings too big for a family to deal with or that they have dealt with it beyond endurance (see this scenerio often)