Of course it is both. The two-way arrow between the macro of societal social problems and the micro of personal family problems is obvious. In fact the metaphor is perfect for this discussion. Viewing social problems as the chicken and ineffective, uncommitted dysfunctional families as the egg should make it clear that we must focus our efforts on the micro if we want to impact the macro. The egg is small, stationary, right under our noses, susceptible to our solution.
Social problems are as illusive as a wild, erratic chicken.
We try to deal with them with more money, more police, more jails, more public education and more often than not we seem to make them worse. Eventually we bankrupt ourselves and exhaust our well-intentioned idea. We have to reach the egg . Solutions lie in the home. The home-egg must be valued, prioritized, strengthened so that it produces solutions rather than problems, contributors rather than abusers, builders rather than wreckers.