I feel that smallsteps will cope, but how many children are there in the communities that have no leadership, no education and even worse, no parents.
This is the problem with not extending the focus of family and connecting it to community. Not every child will have the same conditions, but we should at least be able to improve the conditions of every child.
We have teenagers that connot read a and write, so what chance do they have in the future?
Yep. We also have teenagers that can read and write, but think they don't have to.
Start at the root of the problem istead of putting a plaster of fiat on the sores.
Yep - keep heading further and further upstream. This takes understanding where the river leads.
The family concept is under attack my friend, as the easy ways to divorce has slaughtered many families. In my day single parent families were frowned upon and the kids were treated as lepers.
Nowadays single parent families have become popular resulting in a higher rate of insecure and poor children. A single mother struggle to support one child, but many have four or more children.
Hahaha, and those that can read turn up here on our posts and they don't read them.
Exactly and the evidence is in the fact that the early explorers always searched for the source of a stream. Find the source and then the plan will reveal itself.