The successful intent of the Democrat Party from 1964 to present day has been to give lip service to the idea of helping blacks while maintaining and benefiting from their continued problems. True it is that there are many welfare whore families that benefit greatly from sizeable welfare payments for each child in the family (as long as there is no father in the household) but the overall effect is detrimental to young blacks and their make positive and rewarding contributions to society as adults.
The Effects of Welfare Reform
The intention of Welfare programs is to benefit low income Americans, especially children. Yet the evidence indicates that children and parents are actively harmed rather than helped by welfare.
Nearly all Welfare aid for children goes to single parent households. But current research indicates that both Welfare dependence and single parenthood have significant deleterious effects on children's development, impeding their ability to become successful members of mainstream society.
- Prolonged Welfare dependence reduces children's IQ levels. Dependence also reduces a child's earnings in future years; the longer a child remains on AFDC in childhood the lower will be his earnings as an adult. Being raised on Welfare also increases the probability that a child will drop out of school and will be on Welfare as an adult. Analysis shows that these effects are caused by Welfare per se, not simply poverty; a poor child without Welfare will do better than a similar poor child with welfare.
- Out-of-wedlock childbearing and single parenthood are the principal causes of child poverty and Welfare dependence in the U.S. Children raised in single parent families are more likely to: experience behavioral and emotional problems; suffer from physical abuse; engage in early sexual activity, and do poorly in school. Boys raised in single parent households are more likely to engage in crime; girls are more likely themselves to give birth outside of marriage. These effects are the result of the collapse of marriage per se rather than poverty; a poor child living with a mother and father united in marriage will do better than a similar poor child living in a single parent home.
If you haven't watched the video and listened intently to every word the professor says, please do so. Listen carefully to what she says about the change in the Democrat agenda after the blacks were granted voting rights. In order to keep the blacks thinking that they need the Democrats to resolve their problems, the Democrats must keep promising to solve their problems without really doing so. Their intent is to perpetuate dependency upon mother government rather than to encourage individual success.