But he was a student in a public school that takes responsibility for children in their parents' absence.
Some, as in Moldova, are left over from Soviet times, when governments took responsibility for children born with disabilities (occasionally against their families' wishes).
Shortly after he took over responsibility for children and young people, an Ofsted inspection in 2006 declared Rotherham's children's services department to be "good".
The simple lesson for schools, camps and other institutions with responsibility for children should be this: no covering of a wound without a thorough washing under running water, with or without soap.
Mr. Furedi argues that an even bigger culprit is "the breakdown of adult solidarity," or the notion that everyone shares responsibility for children (the it-takes-a-village approach).
Kirsty McNeill, Save the Children's campaigns director, welcomed the initiative and said the expected announcement would include "a significant new principle … that they do have a responsibility for children in Europe".
It is feared in particular that Aynsley-Green's comparatively limited powers in England, coupled with his overarching responsibility for children and young people throughout the UK, could undermine the authority and autonomy of the other commissioners.
But women, traditionally tasked with primary responsibility for children and home, simply haven't had the nearly universal ability to put that burden on a partner while they seek out professional satisfaction and success.
Our problem is not only that we have allowed cuts – and perhaps the unkindest cut has been of the universality of child benefit, the money that recognises society's responsibility for children.
It is no secret among those who have responsibility for children that the issue of sexual abuse of children and young people is one that plagues all sectors of our society.
But lawyers representing the deceived men see it differently: the unseemly thing, they say, is forcing a man like Mr. Wise to assume financial responsibility for children he was duped into believing were his own, children another man should be supporting.
