How can chronic social problems in the United States, such as the high school dropout rate and teen pregnancies, be addressed?

Question

How can chronic social problems in the United States, such as the high school dropout rate and teen pregnancies, be addressed?

Answer 1

The family is the answer mainly. Consider the following, which shows that laws and spending are not the default answer.

Nearly a hundred years of the supposed “legacy of slavery” found most black children [78%] being raised in two-parent families in 1960. But thirty years after the liberal welfare state found the great majority of black children being raised by a single parent [66%].

Who does better in school: a child with both parents? or of only one?

Schools are part of the problem but that's another answer altogether.