Italy's most powerful and enduring organised crime groups known as mafias are built on blood ties. But a controversial program is removing children from mafia-affiliated families in the hope of breaking the cycle and giving them a chance to choose a different life.
The difference there is the state is doing both things for the same crime, and employment is a conditional agreement.
Blindly trusting that the government would do the right thing requires a severe lack of understanding of history.
Elected officials are the ones who hold regular govt officials accountable.