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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I lived there, I'd be smart enough not to make it worse by having kids.[/quote]

You don't say.

Even poor people want to have children. Even upper-middle-class highly-educated people have unplanned pregnancies.[/quote]
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The difference is that UMC families are making sure their kids get to school every day, on time. [/b] And the difference is that society spends a sh$t ton of money trying to support these women who continue to have kids who they cannot emotionally and financially support.[/quote]

Well, mostly. But you're shifting the goalposts here.

Upper middle-class families are making sure their kids get to school on time every day because they have the economic resources to do so. Poor families do not have these resources -- by definition. That doesn't mean that upper-middle-class parents are good parents and poor parents are bad parents. It means that upper-middle-class parents have more economic resources than poor parents.

[b]So one possible policy approach would be to make sure that poor parents have the economic resources necessary for making sure their kids get to school in time every day.[/b]

Another possible policy approach would be to separate the children of poor parents from their families. The US has actually done this in the past -- for example, with the Indian boarding schools. How did that work out?

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We have been doing this and it appears that it is not a cure all.  Does it make sense to continue to do something that has been proven not to work?

We have been supporting Head Start programs for years.  In MoCo, low income kids get free preK and also get bussed to school for free if needed.  My neighbor teaches at one of these locations and often times, the parents just don't bother sending the kids.

What happens when we have made it economically feasible for the kids to attend school and get there on time, but the parents still don't send their kids.  How do you propose that we hold these parents accountable?[/quote]

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