We could easily tidy up most if not all of these families. The problem is, we could only do it by taking away their autonomy and acting as "benevolent" dictators. One issue we'd have to face is the compulsory sterilisation of the "feckless", because otherwise if you take their babies away, they'll just have more. We'd have to break up families and farm kids out to nice middle-class parents.

But the question is, do we really have the right to do that, and if so, who decides what standards we apply? At what point is someone just a bit disorganised and when do they become dysfunctional enough to step in and deny then any control over their own lives?