The poor need the Strict Father culture, not the welfare culture.

From Heather Mac Donald's "Compassion Gone Mad," also published in The Burden of Bad Ideas:

The message social service programs convey is all too often the polar opposite of what the inner-city poor need. Typically, such programs reward dysfunctional behavior and subordinate the well being of children to dubious ideology—such as the belief that even a flamboyantly neglectful single-parent household, riven by drugs, possesses basic strength and goodness. Above all, the basic purpose of these services to provide the spiritual and material benefits of a stable two-parent family is largely futile. Families create sound individuals by imposing discipline and moral values on children. Even if a government program could do this, these programs don't: for years, imposing values has been anathema to social workers, who studiously avoid making judgments about the "life-style choices" of their clients.

The Gods of the Copybook Headings didn't decree the Strict Father Model arbitrarily, but because it works.