Elise: I'm glad you admit that hiring "a million [more] social workers" will only minimally improve failing government-run services.  What you don't admit/answer is why you feel that the state should be the one to "provide resources to assist the families," and not non-profits, churches, and private organizations-- organizations who have time and time again demonstrated that they are more efficient, organized, and equipped to deal with these challenges.  What's more- you don't actually articulate what these "resources" are: care to give any actual statistics or specifics of services?  Like the government-run public school system, social work has now ballooned into trying to give countless services that it should not take it upon itself to give.  Government administrative burdens, bureaucracy, ever-growing restrictions, are money-sucking resource restrictions, and it is time for communities to give the resources to other organizations to help with this very important issue.