I like this response. Having watched my grandparents' and parents' generations age, and being the age I am, it's easier for me to discern what constitutes an in

I like this response. Having watched my grandparents' and parents' generations age, and being the age I am, it's easier for me to discern what constitutes an individual failure and what is simply a mistake of ignorance. If only the problem of poverty were as simple as sloth, ignorance, lack of opportunity, insufficient education, poor habilitation or mental depression. Any one of those problems is easy to solve. Any two of them in tandem may also be easy to solve. But if you've got all of them AND add happenstance to that list; things that, even at your most cynical, you could not plan against, the complexity of the problem of poverty requires more consideration that any single one of us has. To some people, all the little things that foster individual success are just background noise -- you aren't aware of the noise until it's not there anymore. This has never been more apparent to me than now, as I am raising my children. Somehow I would like them to be grateful that they have so much more than I did, but the only way that can really feel that is to suffer like I did... and I can't let that happen. Volunteering is part of the solution, though. We are each other's most precious resource.