Thank you very much for that poignant question. Being a past child protection worker and bringing children into care, many of the instances of neglect are on the basis of poverty, not on the basis of a family not wanting to provide for their children. It's an inability to provide for their children.
A basic income, coupled with the ability for people to meet their basic needs with housing, would take a tremendous burden off of families themselves. They would be able to maintain...and reduce the harm, to keep their children with them, with their families. It would greatly benefit extended families, who are often exasperated trying to keep kids out of care. Bringing those children back into extended families is breaking those families financially as well. It compounds the issues for children, and intergenerationally, from year to year.
I think addressing the fundamentals, the housing, basic income, would allow families to be able to maintain children in the home, more so than any policy we have right now.