For the majority of people, I think it's safe to say that one cannot feel empathetic towards someone or their situation unless you have experienced something similar. Put simply, kids who have never had to work a job they hated for a long period of time may not treat people at McDonalds with any dignity or respect. That's more of an analogy, however.It's none of our concern. In a society that puts everything in the corner of individual rights and freedoms we begin to lose our sense of community
That's not entirely true since we do in fact have taxes in every developed country. You could deduct the same conclusion from the fact that everyone is having everything given to them free for far too long into adulthood. Much more research into the brains development has me thinking that we need to evaluate "charity" for kids and to what age does it become destructive to the fabric of a caring society.