You're speculating just as much as we are. So I want YOU prove to US, that a majority of these parents, or at least a respectable number of them will begin to care about their kids. Yeah, maybe some will, but I would put that number around 10%. Maybe as high as 15.

One of my ex-girlfriend's did not have any or good health insurance (can't remember), and he mom would always not want to go to the doctor because of it. So I feel that even with these payments affording them the opportunity to make it to the appointment, that's as far as it would go. They still wouldn't have the money or insurance to afford expensive medicines or operations. Unless they find a rare Dr. that is willing to do it pro bono.

 

Apparently you don't understand the idea of burden of proof. This program has worked before. That is the current state-of-affairs. Therefore the burden of proof is on you naysayers to come up with evidence that it wouldn't work.

And I think you are very pessimistic with your estimate of 10-15%...but even if that's the truth, taking 10-15% of children who otherwise would perpetuate the cycle of undereducation and putting them on track to want to succeed in life will result in even more doing the same in the next generation. After just a few generations, the problem has the potential to be much improved.

But mainly, I say give these poor people a chance. You write them off as unmotivated helpless conniving illdoers, when they could just be so beat down that they feel they are stuck. Give them a chance, and some motivation that says somebody cares a little bit, and my guess is the positive benefits of a system like this will far outweigh the few who take advantage. I mean...the numbers in Mexico and Brazil speak for themselves...