"The home, filthy and chaotic with a broken front door, reeks of marijuana."  No mention of Emanuel's father!  

This is a cultural problem that is/was exacerbated by the "Great Society's" misguided programs and its supporter's mindset.  Blaming society at large is not a fix for the problems created by the segment of society that has embrace redistribution of wealth in an attempt to fix cultural problems.  When it comes to sin taxes, most folks believe that if you tax a harmful activity, you will have less of it and if you subsidize the activity you will have more of it.  I often wonder why some folks embrace sin taxes with the belief that it will reduce poor choices all-the-while embracing the subsidization of families that make poor choices. There was a time when a family unit became unfit, the solution was to place children into the care or others until the problem was resolved or the child became of age.  No more, now we just subsidize flawed family units.