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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (212761)	7/20/2007 5:30:35 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 794042

I'd say at the very least, to effectively break the cycle of poverty one needs have his realistic basic living needs met, a safe environment (read mostly free of violent crime) and access to proper education. We can agree on that, too. Obviously we have not met this challenge or poverty would have long been eliminated from the richest country in the world. No, we haven't. But I would argue that a large part of the reason for that is that, in a free country, there is little that we can do about poor parenting except jawbone about it. Instead we act like it's not primarily the fault of the parents' responsibility shortfall and our incessant counter-jawboning to the effect that the world owes them a living. That's a resilient double-dipper cycle, all but impossible to dig out of. There were a couple of major studies that looked into how likely one is to move up the social ladder and the US did not fare very well in it. It worked extremely well for my generation and previous ones. Went downhill from there. My $100K couple, to their credit, knew not to bring children into the world they couldn't provide for.

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