Originally Posted by kane

Many people are products of their upbringing and environment. If you are raised by parents that work hard and teach you to work hard and tell you that you can achieve success in your life you grow up believing it and the odds are you will be one of those people. Your parents lead as much by example as they do by words.

When you see your parents living in a different way you begin to associate that way of life with being normal and okay. They don't necessarily "teach" their kids that they too should be on welfare, but it is what they grew up around and some of these people have a sense of entitlement about it. There are plenty of welfare parents to try to teach their kids to work hard and get an education and build a good future for themselves, but there are also those that don't and their parents lead by example and the example is piss poor.

Obviously it is not something that every kid raised on welfare ends up doing, but there is a cycle that pulls certain people in and makes them want to be in/on the system instead of working.