Sadly, I think not. The worst part about these types of issues is that even if we did make more laws requiring parents to provide for their children, it wouldn't make a difference and would only infringe even more on personal rights. Sometimes I have to take a Darwinistic attitude to not dwell on these negative aspects of our society. Eventually government will have so many laws protecting people from themselves that people will have no common sense or free will. People who don't question authority are easier to control.
People are stupid enough as it is now, they're lazy and self-centered.
Most of them have forgotten what free will is because they never use it. They're told to go to school, they're told to go to work, they're told what to eat and what to buy by an overwhelming barrage of advertisements that begin in the morning on tv or the radio, continue on the billboards along the freeways and on busses, and just go from there. No wonder people have no free will, perhaps they just can't make up their minds so they do what they're told. It's easier, and that's generally what people do, whatever is easiest. So while people like me shout about everyone's Constitutional rights, privacy, and free will - these people ruled by media sit on their complacent butts and watch tv.