AllieBaba
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We have children through out the US whose parents cannot provide proper housing, enough food, schoold supplies and proper medical care,
Many times the parents are at fault. If the parents lived their lives different they could provide for their children's need but they don't.
It may be the parents fault but it definitely is not the chidren's fault.
What do we do for those children in need?
I think the most important thing their own State can do, is provide these children with the best education as possible. Understanding that they probably do not collect much in property taxes to provide the best schools, their States need to spend some, in order to save some in the long term.
Meaning, educating these children well, delivers them from the never ending poverty...and sure, they may leave the area with that education for greener pastures elsewhere, but surprisingly, these successful, educated people tend to come back home...with new business ideas etc....especially if the State is educating the kids well, they have good workers at their disposal.
Just feeding these children does not break the poverty trend, it perpetuates it, and makes these children's children at risk as well.
Education is the key, it will come back to the community ten fold, long term.
And I am not saying that we should let the children starve, or their parents, just that simply feeding them IS NOT helping them...it truly isn't.
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However you can't force children to be educated. They drop out, they move around, their parents don't provide them an environment that fosters scholarship, they deal with multiple issues....DD, mental illness, dysfunction. The education is there now, if they are able to reach for it. The thing is, they usually don't.