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.
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.
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