How welfare net could not save Christopher..

"Shock without therapy," as we called it, was Poland's attempt to privatize without a social welfare net.

In democratic societies the welfare net is fraying.

The family estates were made into flourishing businesses, including a "traditional welfare net, providing security for employees."

"To fund the social welfare net," said the War Admiral.

A generous social welfare net (including both education and healthcare) that had supported white people in Rhodesia disappeared almost in an instant.

Mind, even this meagre welfare net for society's most vulnerable is in the process of being dismantled in its entirety.

For both parents and children the family was the social welfare net.

Today, with the oil boom over, the Saudi economy can no longer afford the welfare net that once guaranteed every Saudi a government job.

This has resulted in backlash from some circles in Hong Kong of increase and potential stress on the territory's social welfare net and education system.