Care to talk about all the kids that aren't on that side of your cherry picked examples, those are equally extreme examples too, wouldn't you agree?
Yeah, probably don't want to talk about those less than stellar outcomes, I don't like those examples either.
I also disagree that everyone will have a support system to get them to where they need to go. Poverty in this country is real...very real.
You are wise and obviously have seen life beyond the county line.
If you are born to a single parent home, your odds of entering the justice system are higher than a two parent.
If you are born to a teenage parent, your odds of entering the justice system are higher than to a parent 20 or older.
If your parent did not graduate high school, your odds of entering the justice system are higher than if your parent(s) graduated high school.
If you are born to a parent(s) that have been the the justice system, your odds of entering the justice system are higher than if you parent has not been in the justice system.
Every life is precious but some lives are dealt such a poor hand the outcome is very high that precious life in not going to be a productive member of society.
So, as you champion more lives being saved then be responsible and plan accordingly as you line up to support more social programs at higher tax rates to yourself because you want every life to not only be precious but to have a real chance at success rather as a statistic sitting in a prison cell or being buried at a young age when they tried to rob you.
If you think your success in life was mostly due to your decades of hard work rather than being dealt a hand in life that was well above what most people are dealt in America much less the world then please get into the Big Brother or Big Sister program and spend some time serving meals at a local shelter. When you see a 8 year old kid that is getting one good meal a day and has been in 5 school districts so far then you might be a little more humble when telling that kid years later at 18 to just pull himself up by his bootstraps and work harder. The fundamentals that 8 year old has missed will be a head wind to doing well in middle school much less graduating high school. Nutritional deficits negatively and permanently impact brain development. Brain connectors increase in number when someone reads to you as a toddler.
I like to think I worked hard to get ahead in life. My three closest friends in school each later did time in state penitentiary. One did Federal time. My town was poor but most of us were white and had two parents in the home so people from other towns looked down on us but was not racial hate towards us. We were skinny but no one put cigarettes out on us. We had crappy dental care. Educational opportunities were all public schools that lacked significant property tax support so the teachers were not pick of the litter and textbooks were old and science labs were very basic. I had plenty of safety nets compared to peers I never knew as a kid but were growing up with immigrant parents or in homes with substance abuse. I met some of those peers in college and later in grad school. I realized I had safety nets they never had and most of the power brokers in society liked how I looked and that I was male. So, yes, I worked hard but caught some breaks I did not even know were based on things I did not control and am not even sure when some of those breaks happened. Did I out-hustle the other sales reps on my team to get that promotion or was the pool reduced because some did not look like me so never were my competition? Did I get hired because I seemed "like a fit" with Acme Inc's culture which was not very diverse?
There is no free lunch. If you want more babies then some are destined for bad outcomes and that cost needs to come out of additional taxes and more things taken off your porch and from under you vehicle.
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