Considerable research, however, links the notorious inefficiency of state spending in America to the tendency of professionals to ‘medicalize’ problems, making them a matter of individual ignorance or family pathology that only ‘experts’ can resolve. This means that federal funding often creates new career paths for professionals rather than gives poor families the resources to help themselves.
-Stephanie Coontz
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