text: Nice story, nice family.  Puts the lie to the bizarre notions so many people have about each man being an island unto himself without community ties or obligations, the kind of notions that leave untold thousands of kids behind, necessitating government attempts to help, somehow, someway because there aren't enough families with the resources and/or heart to help.  I'm sure I'll get vehement responses about this being a private family doing good work by their choice and not an incompetent waste of money stolen from unwilling taxpayers.
  I'm glad there are families out there with the ability and willingness to do as the Simpsons do.  We need more of them, sadly.  Still if we had a just and competently managed economic system which operates for the benefit of all participants we wouldn't have so many kids in such dire need in the first place.