Parents need to change if they want their children to succeed.
I think that's putting the cart before the horse. Instead of parents changing so their children succeed, I think people need to start focusing more on changing so that they don't have children who fail. I.E. most of these people should have never been parents in the first place. They were never equipped to take on the burden in the first place, and likely never will be.
I think that is an exaggeration.
It is not that the single parents (mostly mothers) could NOT provide good homes, but that they have been taught lies about what a good home is.
They have been taught that marriage is not needed.
They have been taught that a father is not needed.
If we stop pretending that single mothers are the equal of a two parent nuclear family, then young women can change their actions, ie plan to have a family with a married father.
For starters.