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Good parents don't just create good children, they also create good parents.

Government programs (as presently conceived) will never catch up in terms of effectiveness because they don't have this self-replicating behavior. They can provide relief but not much in the way of lasting improvement.

We should focus a lot more efforts socially and politically to create self-sustaining families and avoid culture and policies that disrupt them.




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