Not sure if they do it deliberately, but there’s like this sorta expectation to sympathize with parents who despite being poor still have children. Didn’t they make a CHOICE though? Do you think they should be solely responsible for making it?
Humans are social beings, whose conditions economically stem from social relations to production and distribution. Nobody chooses to be poor. Nobody chooses who they are born to, and becoming wealthy is almost entirely luck-based. Placing the responsibility for raising the next generation of a social being purely on individuals, and not society itself, is a horrifically short-sighted viewpoint that punishes both the parent and the child for conditions outside of their control, and perpetuates cycles of poverty rather than building towards a better future.
Society functions best when people have adequate food, drink, shelter, education, and the ability to develop themselves to the furthest extent possible, as society is made up of people. Raising the next generation is a social task, because it means creating the next society that replaces us. A society of educated, well-fed people is better able to solve the tasks presented to us. A society that abandons the poor leaves a portion of society as under-privledged, which extends crime and hampers our ability to progress forwards.
It’s as much a moral failure as it is a developmental failure to abandon those in need. This is also why it is necessary to move beyond capitalism and into socialism.
