I disagree with your humble opinion, no matter how you slice it more children overall will end up dead at the hands of their parents then in any government funded institution. We are suppose to take the opinion of a man seriously who believes that communities can form to police themselves. What snitch is going to want to be the first one to get stitches for narking out their neighbor when there's no authorities involved to protect them from harm?

I also have a long family history of being involved in foster care, it has crept along generational lines. Out of over three dozen kids placed in the foster care system between my generation and the next only three of them came out with an untarnished start on life, those three were adopted as infants. For the majority of the rest it was already to late by the time they were taken, behavioral traits had already set in. A couple of us, myself included somehow by some unknown miracle came across people in our lives who minimized the harm that could have been done and/or ended up in the foster care system much longer than anticipated. The much more longer than anticipated usually is a result of the parent returning to the same behavioral patterns that got their kids taken away in the first place. Once a child is tarnished beyond repair the system is going to struggle to fix that, in most cases it fails because the damage is to far gone, especially if we are talking who were sexually abused before placement. People love to blame the system for the prior sins of parents when the system can't heal these kids from their wounds. You see studies done where they come out and say a lot of kids who have foster home experience end up prostitutes or stats don't show they ended up any better in life. That's because the majority of kids end up back in the hands of the people who abused after they cleaned up their act long enough to get their kids back then returned to the same pattern(s) of behavior afterwards. Some of these kids are teenagers that foster families can't handle the abuse is so far set in. Yes they try other non home placements but the fact remains the same, it's to late and these kids actually believe what they've been taught by their parents is just how the world is. You mix that with those willing to take advantage of them and yes it's screwed up but it's not at the hands of the system, that doesn't mean the system is a failure, looking over my lifetime in comparison to where I have gone and where I have been that amount of time I spent in foster care was minute but it made all the difference in my life despite the fact I was returned to my mom who not only fell back on being an abuser before she got us all back but continued on that path for years afterwards. The reason they just kept giving us back?...because the damage was already done, no one could handle some of the kids, there was no other viable options then to return them to an environment that seemed normal for them. Just out of the six of us one ended up being chopped into pieces by a mass murderer, two ended up with life sentences in prison, one spent fifteen years in prison, another held up incredibly well until of late and seems to be falling apart at the seems, crumbling into a mixture of split personalities. Myself I am still holding down the fort trying incredibly hard to break the cycle with my own family...something I would never have known how to do except for some people who I spent one tiny year of my life with, no it wasn't a perfect stay, we had our differences but without that intervention my life and many others like me would have been a whole lot different.

As far as using private entities to take care of these types of issues I can't even fathom after the decades long abuses committed on children by many priest in the Catholic Church you'd think this even a good idea. Just image what they must have gotten away with in their orphanages of days past, incredible. Once you go private there's no telling what these places could instill in the minds of kids, let alone being held accountable if it's found out.