The difference, as you well know, is that in developed countries there's no need to put the burden of fixing problems on families.
That shouldn't be the measure of a developed country as you SHOULD well know. You seem to accept that there's no other way to improve on this other soon other than handing over responsibility to some state department. It's a sick way of thinking and I honestly doubt you care even a lick about this issue or the people but rather just want to convince yourself that all the real world proof proving my point just doesn't exist.
And when someone isn't accountable? You'd let them and their kids suffer and compound all their problems in the future? Not how we do it in Europe.
That's the problem! That is THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM! Read this in your outside voice nice and loud:
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND BUREACRATS ARE LESS ACCOUNTABLE IN EVERY SENSE THAN THE AVERAGE CITIZEN. They don't care about fixing anything. They only want to ensure they keep receiving funding to fix a problem that has grown more of a problem as people have relied less and less on the family unit. The amount of money that goes to these state run departments grows regularly-obviously nothing is getting fixed in western countries, teen pregnancy is now commonplace and you advocate a proven failure as the winning formula? Give your head a shake.
Pay a little now or pay a fortune later.
Jingoistic bullsh*t! I have given you real world examples of how that is patently false! This problem gets worse with government involvment, that is a fact.
You don't actually want to learn anything here do you? You don't actually want to turn the issue around and examine it from a perspective other than the one you had from the beginning. You are completely wrong on this and despite not one bit of evidence proving the contrary, you're still trying, like a two-bit lawyer to make a case. You don't have one- greater government involvement messes this up more for society because current governments are by nature, corrupt and wasteful because guess what? They're not really accountable at all.
Let's take teen pregnancy in Canada for example. Funding has increased to support teen pregancy and that's exactly what it's done -there are more and more teen moms every year. Who is held accountable for the losing formula? Ministers aren't fired, social workers aren't fired, co-ordinators don't lose their jobs. On the contrary, there's more and more funding for them! Before you can advocate government involvment, you have to ensure there's accountability in government when government policies don't work but there isn't, one administration gets voted out, no laws are repealed and more people pay for an ever growing establishment that seeks to maintain itself over the interests of the citizen.
Nonsense. You are beginning to sound like a faux-Ayn Rand libertarian. Every man for himself.
Don't be such a twit. I am speaking about one issue here and I've supported my point with real world/current examples.
MANDATING financial responsibility for other people's personal decisions costs the middle class and fails every time. Corporations escape these laws, the wealthy escape these taxes and the number of people claiming financial support GROWS- this is a fact and there's not a god damn thing you can say or write to prove otherwise.
You know I once heard a particularly f*ckwitted person (Polish as it happens) saying that paying taxes and providing state support for those who need it was like two people on a desert island, one hard-working and the other lazy, with the hard-working guy having to pay cash to the lazy guy. A particularly sill analogy, but to carry it further -
You're right, it is a completely crap analogy and I have no idea why you bothered to carry a flawed analogy further.