I lived in a poor neighborhood during college.
The kids of the welfare moms would hang around the house quite a bit out of curiousity. One little girl asked me why I was always reading those big books. I replied it was so I could get an education and then get good job.
She said, “Can’t you just get a check from the government?”
Activists like to proclaim there is a "gay" gene which affects behavior. You'd think they'd also support there's a reading gene. Parents who read to their children encourage a love of books; However, Children who see parents reading for the joy of reading, become lifelong readers themselves. It's the act of witnessing the behavior as a chosen behavior which does the greatest good in a child coupled with the parent sharing that joy with the child.