The state may or may not be able to improve the parenting practices of actual parents, but it definitely can wage a decades long "war on drugs" that disproporti

The state may or may not be able to improve the parenting practices of actual parents, but it definitely can wage a decades long "war on drugs" that disproportionately ensnares the poor and minorities in the legal system and follows up on that by imposing disproportionately severe sentences on them. By doing so, it can help tilt the balance towards bad parenting in such communities by ensuring that more children in those communities only have a single custodial parent, at best. But please, let's continue to act like we can solve the problem by demonizing the teachers unions.