Since parents and caregivers, and the environment that a child grow up in are the most influential factors in the later life success of children, solving the injustices and inequalities that children in poorer families face is the “most effective tool we have in early childhood for improving a child’s future” because children in poorer families begin at a disadvantaged state (Tough 29). For this reason, monetary support must be provided to parents by the government to successfully raise their children “from the day they leave the delivery room” (Duncan 163). By recognizing the financial burden that parents shoulder in raising children and supplementing monetary resources as necessary depending on the family’s financial standing and the needs of their children will “assign the burden of collecting child support to the government, rather than the [parents], because the government has the tools and resources to achieve compliance” (Duncan 163). Lifting the financial burden of child-raising off of parents ensures that parents will have more time and resources to devote to their children.