I've raised four kids in Alaska.   Two have college degrees, one from UA and one from WA.   They're both married to spouses, both Alaskans, with college degrees and both are doing pretty well, quite well actually, and they both live Outside and will probably never come back to Alaska except for the occasional visit.   Just spent last week on the Kenai with one of the couples.   The other lives on the East Coast, so that is more of a chore to get together.

I have two others that it took everything we could do to get them out of high school, and with one keep out of jail.  Those two are still in Alaska.   They're not really social welfare burdens because they have fairly well off parents, but they may be; we won't live forever.   Alaska has Godawful crummy schools and a youth culture right out of "A Clockwork Orange."   Parents that bat .500 against the education system and popular culture are doing pretty damned well.