My hatred for NJ aside, this sort of problem remains unidentified.
Parents don’t care. Money or no money. I know lots of well off people who’s kids are feral.
My wife was.
We had a pitiful boy in my son's K-5 class whose parents arranged "play dates" for him every night of the week. Around the time when they should have picked him up, they would call the host families and ask for the kid to stay over because one thing or another. One had a PhD and the other an M.D. They were both head shrinkers. (I pity their patients, but that's another story.)
The boy was a good child but was becoming an emotional wreck. I finally called up the father, a white man and a doctor, and gave him a point-by-point talking to about this neglect. His response? He wrote a letter to the editor of a major city newspaper about how black families neglect their children. I could not believe my eyes.
Liberals.