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Originally posted by Tim Hancock
... and they have no role models at home to look up to.
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Exactly Tim. it's a degenerative cycle at best. You can't throw money at these kinds of problems, you've got to create community based infrastructure: church groups, schools, elders (lot's of wisdom there) all need to be brought together to break social cycles. People need people to break cycles; $ alone never will.
Put another way, I am really against the welfare system, mainly because it propagates cycles (poverty, need, expectation, abuse) rather than breaks them. The end game is that when you don't work for something, when it's just given to you, you'll never appreciate it, you'll never understand achievement, you'll never learn anything and be able to take those skills to modify them to tackle new challenges. Entitlement programs are poorly designed to make you FEEL like you are one thing, but don't give you the tools to actually BE that thing.