What social programs can we establish to promote families (especially in low income areas)?

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It seems that neither the welfare state, nor the militarization of the police can raise everyone out of poverty and/or prevent crime. I believe, that the best way to help the poor and prevent crime (especially in low income areas) is better promote families and encourage men to take responsibility and be fathers and husbands. What do you think, either the government or the private sector, can do to promote families?

Autonomy.

Political autonomy is not sufficient. Economic autonomy is a better tool to address poverty.

Autonomy is not about hand outs. It is about helping people to help themselves, facilitating their capacity to by use their own individual and specific skills to live independently of hand outs, irrespective of where those hand outs come from - the state or the private sector. Hand outs create dependency culture and deprive people of the human dignity in terms of the capacity to put bread on their own table by their own effort. Hand outs should be solely an interim, emergency measure.

That said, the hand out cannot be taken away if there is nothing else to put in its place.
How can a father take responsibility and be a father or a husband if he cannot put food on the table other than relying on a hand out irrespective of where the hand out comes from? No one should have to depend on anyone for their daily bread.

Poverty can only be alleviated by jobs that pay a decent wage. To create jobs that pay a decent wage the economy must thrive on the domestic front, and facilitation of a skilled workforce to meet contemporary employment demands.