I could only think of two things the whole time: 1 - complete disgust 2 - I feel horrible for those kids, they're going live miserable lives unless they have some drastic course-of-life changing event or find a good role model.  They're being raised as helpless victims, which is what they'll grow up thinking they are.  They're being taught that the rest of society has an obligation to take care of them and they need not try.