When you look at it as being “sad”, they have you were they want you. You have to get tough with these people or it will get worse. In our society today, I can guarantee you it will get worse. We baby these people instead of making sure they fit into our society.
I agree that they have institutionalized a non-productive, worthless lifestyle. But at the same time I am “sad” for the babies and children who have to grow up in such a hopeless, forever self-perpetuating environment. I am not too sure how you get “tough” with the parents who are hardly more than children themselves to break them out of it. What do you suggest?
I saw an old movie a couple of weeks ago about a kind but no-nonsense school for young boys that came from similar hopeless conditions and trained them to become responsible British merchant marine sailors, the best of them going to work on the Queen Mary. These boys were taken completely out of their deadly environment but could receive letters and visits from their families. It’s the only thing I could ever see as working to even put a bit of a dent in the toxic culture of places like southside Chicago. However it would have to be set up and run on conservative principles to work and so I see very little possibility of it ever happening. And I feel “sad” when I’m feeling pessimistic. So as I said, what do you suggest be done to break the cycle?