Child abuse linked to alcoholism

adn.com: State regroups on child abuse
Social workers investigating child abuse claims who discover alcoholic parents are stuck: there's few foster families, the state doesn't want to pay for raising the kids, and it's common for the most dysfunction of families to have a very limited network of extended family to count on. So what do you do with the at-risk child? Personally, I'd rather pay for an elaborate and expensive orphange system than a fake war in Iraq. It's true that taking children away from their families really sucks, as do orphanages, but do they suck more than getting abused by drunk parents?