If you need welfare to be able to have children, you shouldn't be having children. You wouldn't buy a dog if you couldn't afford food for it or vet visits, would you? I raised my children without government help. I KNEW I would never be afford a large family, thus didn't have one. Women without the means to get work or be able to provide for their children and are on welfare are likely more often than not to not have a clue how to raise children. They aren't going to be supportive of schooling or anything. They likely are out partying or finding the next man to father their next little welfare recipient.
http://womenslawproject.wordpress.c...e-queen-who-actually-receives-tanf-benefits/
from that: Approximately 90% of Americans receiving cash assistance benefits are single mothers
These women did not get a college education and then decide they wanted a baby without a husband. These women were likely about 16, got pregnant and went on welfare. I have seen with my own eyes people with foodstamps whip out a 20 dollar bill for beer or wine. I help give out food baskets at Christmas through the Elks and they DO drive up in Cadillacs and SUVs. The SAME people year after year. Young husband-less, education-less women with infants get free babyfood. Getting pregnant is not something to catch, like a bad cold. It is cultivated condition, a chosen one. One that you need to THINK about before doing. What they should be doing is requiring the girl not only finish high school, but go on to learn a skill to be able to independently support herself and her child. I do not believe that is done. These women were not stricken with an illness though no fault of their own -- they knew exactly what they were doing and they couldn't pay the consequences, so now the rest of us have to pay it for them. For how long? You think THESE children are going to be encouraged to make something of themselves, get good grades in school? I doubt it. Then what happens when these kids grow up? I venture to say a goodly number of prison inmates, gang members, etc., of all races, contain these children after they grow up.
And before you get all hoity toity on me here, I was raised by a single, divorced mother in the 1950s! No welfare, no government assistance, no father visits either. She would work sometimes 3 jobs. It wasn't easy, but she did it. I was encouraged to get an education and be able to support myself before I got married. I did. If my husband would have either left me or died when my daughter was a baby, I could have supported the two of us just fine without the government's help. If you liberals can't wipe your butts without asking for government assistant, that's your problem.
responsible father in the picture.....?
