Government Must Not Subsidize Dereliction

    Paying for babies and children who have parents that do not help and financially support their own children is a bad trend, which leads to family chaos, community ruin. Societal decay. We all understand that the nuclear family has gone through major problems in our lifetime. I have been around since the beginning of the 1970s. Children without both parents have struggled. We understand not every family can have two parents. But does the government need to subsidize a child from conception to adulthood?

    No. Kids without strong parental support, guidance, and supervision, often become societal problems. Drug use, dealing with illegal alcohol consumption and other illicit behaviors. Many of them have relations in jail and prison. Their fathers, their uncles, their cousins, their brothers are locked up, repeat offenders on the wrong side of the law. Other poor behaviors crop up in huge communities of deadbeat fathers, how many millions who do not help in raising their progeny?

    Millions depend on government checks to survive. Food, shelter, healthcare. 

    Am I describing a particular demographic that you know, or that you know of? If I am, than the facts of which I speak line up.

    All of us benefit from the U.S. government, even the wealthy. Our taxes subsidize so many things for the common benefit: the military, research and development, homeland security and law enforcement, transportation, medicines and public health, social services, veteran benefits, public housing, the corrections systems.

    

    The corrections system might be a giant misnomer.

    We all may be unintentionally funding and abetting generations of derelicts. We ourselves might be part and parcel of the dereliction.

How do we define dereliction?

der·e·lic·tion

[ˌderəˈlikSH(ə)n]

NOUN

1. the state of having been abandoned and become dilapidated:

   "every year valuable gardens start the slow slide to dereliction"

   synonyms:

   dilapidation · disrepair · decrepitude · deterioration · ruin · rack and ruin · abandonment · neglect · disuse · desertion · rejection · forsaking

   • (dereliction of duty)
     the shameful failure to fulfill one's obligations

   Our government has done many good or great things for us, and millions of us have either been the benefit givers or the beneficiaries, or in most cases both.

2. Are we solving the problems of our current and future generations?

   We need to figure out how to bring up the numbers of two parent homes, and not incentivize mothers or fathers, parents, to be derelicts of their children, raising (or not raising) other derelicts, the next generation of derelicts, that do not contribute to positive communities and a good society of contributors.

   The U.S. government and us, the people that populate the Presidency and Congress and our local governments, need to learn to overcome this ruinous cycle.