Reminds me of a conversation with a high school counselor friend of mine. Who was having a meeting along with school administration about a troubled youth. His foster parents were attending in order to provide background information. They went into a long dissertation about their ability to care for and provide for the youth. The dissertation included the fact that they were quote, “living the American dream”.
Previous to the quote was the income background of SSI, disability income, food stamps, and a few other hands in the welfare pocket. Neither one of them worked and the American Dream quote nearly knocked all of them out of their chairs.
A friend of mine and his wife used to keep foster kids. I’ll never forget a quote from one little girl who asked him every morning where he was going? Where he went every day? He went to work. Totally a foreign concept for this child.
In my neck of the woods, the counselors around here would only have said, "Here is the problem with little Jamal, you don't have him on these programs". I.E. the parents had missed a couple.