Here are some studies for you that shows the child tax credit encourages parents to work and boosted children out of poverty:
The child tax credit encourages parents to work, study finds (cnbc.com)
Child tax credit lifted 3 million kids from poverty in July (cnbc.com)
The new child tax credit does more than just cut poverty (brookings.edu)
An Expanded Child Tax Credit Would Reduce Poverty To Below 10 Percent In Nearly All States (forbes.com)
If Congress Fails to Act, Monthly Child Tax Credit Payments Will Stop, Child Poverty Reductions Will Be Lost | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (cbpp.org)
Now where are the studies that show parents would spend the money on drugs and go hunting?