Where was support?

When I read about the outpouring of support for Ethan Stacy and his family, I wonder where these people were when the boy really needed them? Deseret News articles indicate many people believed both the mother and the boyfriend possessed unstable if not just outright mentally ill personalities. Somehow the boy wound up unsupervised with both of them. In Utah, mental health receives even less lip-service and mediocre funding from uninterested legislators than public education. These same legislators always manage to find maximum funding for roads. People in our culture talk a good talk about protecting children. That protection is mostly just words.

Rick Soulier

Provo