Blackstone case- what WE can do ? ( the kibbutz in Israel ? )

        Every newspaper reader in the country can learn the details about the Blackstone house of horrors: All those neglected kids and their skeletal brothers/sisters , wretched offspring of 31 year old mother Erika Murray. Could we imagine these " not abnormally callous or detached "  neighbors living right next door to stinking Auschwitz ?  Your editorial September 17, " Blackstone case shows need to help neighbors step in ", concludes by raising the most important question: in general, what can be done to prevent child abuse and neglect ?

           I  certainly don't blame good neighbors for this sordid nightmare.  The evil has deep social roots. Modern capitalism has carried  personal " alienation " to an insane extreme. Did not the late Erich Fromm suggest a solution to the problem of the circumscribed " I " in his now dusty old classic " The Sane Society "  ?

             The modern nuclear family is  way too isolated.  We simply must organize ourselves into larger, more efficient social units ( like the kibbutz in Israel ? ) where our communal instincts are not impaired by sacrosanct privacy and private property rights. When many responsible eyes are on our children, none of the them will end up living doomed, hellish lives  like rats in a plague. Or baking in the back seat of a car while mom goes for a job interview .

                Am I too just a daffy utopian ? Or does Reason have some place in organizing human society ?