The father, as head of his household, was replaced by welfare payments and food stamps. The titular (no pun) head of the household is now yo mama and the family is comprised of crack dealers, hos and welfare cheats.
Now it is apparent that it will never change.
Life means nothing to these creatures, many of whom are now mind-numbed degenerates who care nothing for another life.
It goes even deeper than that. The Great Society programs and ‘adjustments’, as you say, have required higher taxes. In turn, those higher taxes have resulted in many stay at home moms entering the work force to help protect their families from a lower standard of living (and in many cases, just to survive financially).
Thus, more and more children have been raised without parental influence for most of the daytime hours. That, in turn, has resulted in many of the Bad Things we see in society today, because without that influence many have lost their moral bearings.
One very unfortunate development has been the Section 8 and similar programs with the result of the demise of previously fine neighborhoods. Here the counties use it as weapons against the affluent and educated.