Vulnerable Populations are Victims

People are born into certain situations. In other words, we can not choose our parents. Therefore, when a child is born in the U.S. or elsewhere in the world, they are born into a certain socioeconomic status. Hence, a child may have certain disadvantages and advantages from the very beginning. Vulnerable populations in the U.S. are usually born into their vulnerable status. This is not to say that children can improve their situation through hard work and get out of the state of vulnerability but it will be much harder for them to do so than children born into a higher socioeconomic class. Therefore, for the most part, it is proper to view vulnerable populations as "victims" of an unfair and unjust society. Slavery is a perfect example in American history where people were victims of a horrible system.

All in all, society has a responsibility to help and assist vulnerable populations. There is an issue of the degree or how much help should be provided, but overall help has to be delivered. Those who take advantage of assistance through fraud have to be punished. However, those that cannot help themselves need to have help provided for them whether it is help with health care or help with employment.