Evil and Statist Thinking

A quote from this article caught my eye:

Cincinnati Mayor Charlie Luken added in a statement: "What President Bush should realize, but does not, is that the single biggest factor in keeping families together is stability - a job, decent and affordable health care, and a quality education."

What about a culture of commitment? It seems to me that family life was (and is) very strong in places of great poverty because people willed it to be so. Or is this dunderhead saying that only socialism will allow us to achieve true family values and household tranquility?