evidence: If we value responsibility, we can’t ignore the $34 billion in child support absent parents out to be paying to millions of parents who are taking care of their children——. If we value strong families, we can’t perpetuate a system that actually penalizes those who stay together. Can you believe that a child who has a child gets more money from the government for leaving home than for staying home with a parent or a grandparent? That’s not just bad policy, it’s wrong and we ought to change it. [...] The Role Of Government [...] We can’t renew our country until we realize that governments don’t raise children; parents do. Parents who know their children’s teachers and turn off the television and help with the homework and teach their kids right from wrong——those kind of parents can make all the difference. I know. I had one. And I’m telling you we have got to stop pointing our fingers at these kids who have no future and reach our hands out to them. Our country needs it. We need it. And they deserve it.