Children have no choice what family they are born into or the success of their parents while they are growing up, but what they can do is reach out for help if this does grip their life chances.
This problem is discussed in recent blog by Mark Bertin, M.D., where he discusses how children are the future of this country...if they make it to the future. He then touches on different areas that need more focus in children's lives in order to set them up well for the future.
One specific area is a safe and stable home environment. He argues that often time adults who are at-risk need to be educated on how to successfully develop their children because they did not receive that when they were young.
This problem is persistent even here in Fort Collins, and one organization recognized that need and is doing something about it. The Matthews House is a nonprofit organization that focuses on empowering young adults and families who are in that transition period so that they can become stable and shape positive futures for themselves.
Sometimes it's not that the children have no desire to succeed in life, and do that in a healthy way, it's they are just never given that opportunity due to the life circumstances they have been dealt.
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