I really don't think it's driven by malice. It's just that the perverse outcomes benefit them, so they make no effort to mitigate and are willing to double down.

Undisciplined

econ

Why the Family Is Not the Model for the State

For the simple reason of divide and conquer, the state wants families to be dysfunctional. So they will have to depend on the system to survive, divorced mothers, drug-addicted children, things like that. A family that has no problems does not need the state to survive.