At the moment, these practical services that promote independence are severely underfunded as resources are prioritised towards those with the highest needs.
But the fact of the matter is that the little girl, if adopted by two gay men who were in a loving, stable relationship and had passed all the same tests as any couple going through the process, would be growing up in a safe, nuturing home rather than an underfunded, resource-starved care home with no mother or father to speak of.
The majority of them are chronically underfunded and have few resources or time to invest in preparedness and emergency response programs.
"While it is for politicians to examine whether these implications are a price worth paying, we are absolutely clear that mutual aid should not be used as an excuse or reason to underfund and under-resource the PSNI".
As a result landscape resources have been undervalued, underfunded and marginalised in favour of larger grey infrastructure development.
The tragedy is that the disability program is underfunded, facing the exhaustion of its resources as soon as 2016.
"Community-based programs are so underfunded they don't have the resources to respond appropriately" to evidence that a person may be teetering on the edge of violence, he added.
We are looking for them to be honest and tell the truth that we are underfunded, that we are not given the resources that we need to do our job effectively.
And lawmakers who have typically underfunded community colleges may want to direct more resources to institutions that are doing a difficult job better than we knew.
The issue is important, since emphasising the importance of road traffic crashes risks switching resources to urban areas, away from already underfunded rural regions.
Exporting these models to LIC where qualified human resources are scarce and health systems are underfunded is not the right way forward.
