RSA 126-M:1 Purpose; Intent.

I. The general court recognizes:
(a) That children are the future of New Hampshire.
(b) That prevention and early intervention services to prospective parents, parents with very young children, and adolescents who will inevitably become parents have a positive effect on their own and their children's wholesome development and success.
(c) That New Hampshire cannot afford the enormous human and financial costs associated with child abuse and neglect, low birth weight babies, and poor school performance which crisis management efforts in many cases and in the long run can neither remedy nor alleviate.
(d) That, as programs in many states around the country and in other nations have demonstrated, investment in prevention and early intervention services save futu