What I have learned from watching lots of interviews with drug addicts and homeless is that some people are so broken by life that it is impossible to fix them.

What I have learned from watching lots of interviews with drug addicts and homeless is that some people are so broken by life that it is impossible to fix them. No amount of resources spent on “fixing” them will work. All we can do is to minimise the number of kids who get broken in early childhood by parents/family/neighbourhood, giving them a chance to avoid the same destiny. Having said that, helping does work for the maybe 80% who hasn’t yet become completely broken.