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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
It is parents and home life
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Which is why we were talking about programs that could help address parents and home life.
I, half jokingly, suggested we could find money to fund Head Start and other early intervention programs if we ended the drug war.
Wonk said he'd rather give the drug war savings directly to families.
SEC Chick said her mom knows a heck of a lot more about this than any of us.
I think we do a poor job of preparing people for parenthood. I think even if we did a better job, there will always be a lot of poorly prepared parents (being prepared obviously negatively correlates with becoming a parent). I think we could do a lot more - parenting class, child care, basic financial/nutritional/necessity support, Head Start, other early childhood interventions that I can't name off the top of my head - if we had funding for it.
It won't fix it all, but I think those are the things we can and should do to start to chip away at the 50%.
