While reading through your post I was wondering "How can anybody be so ignorant?", but then I saw this;

"These countries cannot function, to a large degree, because there is no ??family? system in their social strata."

..and it made it all clear for me.

You can say whatever you want; that they have to help themselves, that they are lazy, whatever.. but without help how are they going to overcome famine, poverty, disease and despotism without the economical or political help from countries with the ability to do so? I'm not blaming the US, as I said earlier, i'm blaming every country (and person) who is in a position to help but doesn't. You can't just say "Well, we've got problems of our own" because trust me, no matter how bad your current problems are they are nowhere near as bad as the problems these people go through every fucking day. The difference is that you have the means and the ability to help yourselves.