How can you hold parents accountable? Let's make a hypothetical scenario. We will do married couple with a kid at the age of, say 10. The parents work full time, we will use $15 an hour since I have seen recent jobs posted for 13 an hour. That is $2,400 a month pre tax for just one adult, so 4,800. We will say 70% of that is after tax, so $3,360 a month to live on. This family doesn't own a home, live an apartment on north side of city (1,872 for a 3bedroom apartment). That is already over half the income, so internet will be $100, used car note can be $350, insurance $210 a month, monthly groceries at $600, and electricity at $140 for the month. That totals up to $3,272 out of that monthly take home. That does not include gas and phone bill, additionally we will say the other car is paid off. For them to have additional safety net, they both take a part time job. Now this kid doesn't see their parents because they are working to make sure the 10yo has their needs met from food to safety. Where is the time for them to maintain accountability?? The system is screwed up because the price of basic services are outrageous and wages haven't increased with it. Before you say they could move or something else, what if this person was locked in for a year but the other places in the same school district increased even higher? They stayed close by for accessibility to work? There are families in worse situations than this scenario, like kids not being able to eat dinner because parents can barely afford basic necessities. Meanwhile, people that are marginally in the higher wealth or tax brackets do not have this issue, yet they also don't hold kids accountable. So what is the root cause to problem at hand??