I too hope that the young man gets a change and I am sure people will step up to help. We Americans can do great things.
All of those drug taking, hopeless adults were once cute kids suffering as well and instead of saying to themselves " I won't do this to my kids" they have generation after generation. They need to change, they need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and want to improve.
Sitting at home collecting welfare, taking drugs and having more kids is not the answer. It has never worked for any country or any generation.
America still offers free education. The library is free, the internet is free, there are books on Word, Excel, Powerpoint. Books on writing a resume, how to get a job. There are wonderful people who work there who will help you, explain things to you. There are newspapers where you can look for a job. Many have classes on babysitting, book clubs, and computer classes all free.
The library is a place you can take your kids to and spend all day. Books to read, puzzles to do. I use to walk to ours and spend the whole afternoon there with my three kids, especially in the summer as we did not having AC in our first home. I would feed the kids lunch and we would walk the mile there, spend 3 or 4 hours and then walk home and have dinner it was wonderful. My daughter loved it so much that her first job was as a library aid.
I don't know anything about AA but if there is not a chapter close perhaps someone could call and they can start one. Maybe someone from the local high school can tutor a group of adults in math or reading.
Also many hospitals offer free classes on everything from child birth to planning for retirement, also things such as healthy eating, exercise, weight control the list is endless. These opinions are already in place they just need to get of their butts and take advantage of them.
There are so many opinions, so many. A bit of imagination, lots of hardwork and a willingness to change and improve is what it takes. Giving these people welfare generation after generation is not the answer.
As I said I don't have pity for the adults, they were those cute kids once and they saw and experienced the hardship. Kids are always cute and we always want to help them but people need to help themselves, people need to change and give back, not just take and take and take.