[meiraleal]

> It really highlights just how important having a stable home life is to shaping the future outcomes for kids

It also highlights the lack of investment to support those kids having a better future. It is just a matter of priority and resource allocation, after all.

[rayiner]

This is not a problem you can fix with bureaucracy. Bangladeshi villages manage to raise stable kids that don’t commit crimes at the rate of the average American, much less the rate of Americans in the foster system. That should give you a hint about how important “investment” and “resource allocation” is in this problem versus other factors.

[meiraleal]

That exactly proves my point, if Bangladeshi can do it, the US could too, if it was a priority. It is not and it probably won't ever be.

[rayiner]

America places far more priority on, and makes much more investment in, the well-being of children than Bangladesh does. The problem is that the tools Americans have limited themselves to using to accomplish those ends (experts, money, the formal education system) are the wrong tools for the job.