User talk:Behanmaself

The concept of a state sanctioned child welfare system dates back to Plato's Republic. Plato theorised that the interests of the child could be served by snatching children from the care of their parents and placing them into state custody. To prevent an uprising from dispossessed parents: "We shall have to invent some ingenious kind of lots which the less worthy may draw on each occasion of our bringing them together, and then they will accuse their own ill-luck and not the rulers." [1] Plato's Republic• Chapter 5 On matrimony and philosophy.

I have read the relevant section this quote comes from and can find no mention of children, or child protection. Can anyone help. I am a social work student and I am doing an essay on child protection.