The right-wing approach to parents in poor, bad neighborhoods is to offer them lectures in doing the impossible, or punish them.

Some of them could be validly criticized for having children without being in a position to raise them properly. But not all: some of them may have had good jobs back then, and reasonably expected they could afford to raise children. Anyway, society failed to teach them this precept; society therefore shares the responsibility for the current problem.

Whoever's at fault, it's not the children. Society should provide the real help that their parents need.