Indeed, many organisations appear to be avoiding the responsibility altogether.
The doctrine of diminished responsibility provides a mitigating defense in cases in which the mental disease or defect is not of such magnitude as to exclude criminal responsibility altogether.
Evidence suggests that children can do just as well in other forms of stable placements such as long-term fostering and "special guardianship" – a court order that gives a guardian legal parental responsibility for a child without removing responsibility altogether from the birth parents.
Right-wing leaders like Beck disavow responsibility altogether.
Those that are named and shamed in the government's new performance tables may be stripped of their responsibilities for adoptions altogether, he said.
The shift was not only symbolic but also a material one, where transitioning from being a herder in a group ranch to a herdsman or supervisor in a private ranch meant a different set of herding practices, a different set of pressures and responsibilities, and an altogether different livelihood.
Soon afterwards it lost responsibility for settlement altogether, to a new organisation called Crest.That loss turned out to be no bad thing.
While some companies have steered clear of the Tea Party-backed Prop 23, which seems to be losing popularity every week, California companies interested in slowing down AB32 and maybe ridding themselves of responsibility for pollution altogether have been quietly funneling money to Prop 26.
He said while the FCO was notified of Dr Khan's detention in November 2012, there might be a case for suggesting that while they advised people from going to Syria, that "doesn't absolve" them altogether of responsibility.
But McConnell and his Republican colleagues are also reluctant to take responsibility for killing the deal altogether.
