I didn't mean to start a blame game but just wanted to point out one very important factor (parents) that's missing in the article. And actually, pointing finge

I didn't mean to start a blame game but just wanted to point out one very important factor (parents) that's missing in the article. And actually, pointing finger has to start SOMEWHERE to find out what's wrong and figure out how to fix it. I disagree with poverty being the root of the issue. It's one of them, but not the primary one. There are many examples a society was desperately poor but they escaped it with education. Look at some Asian countries. Good example is S Korea. They were desperately poor just barely 1-2 generations ago. The cards were really stacked against the country (no natural resource, infra wiped out by vicious 3 year war, uneducated population, requirement for maintaining large army etc) 6 decades ago, and it was pretty much just improving education that got them out of the hole.