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No he didn’t.
You were wrong. Glad we could agree.
That was decades ago. Now let’s fast forward to today? Shall “we”?
What did it do to the total of single parent families and how is that going regarding poverty?
Single motherhood has grown so common in America that today 80 percent of single-parent families are headed by single mothers — nearly a third live in poverty.
Poverty rates are still lower, statistically than before those programs.
From you link, 40% of single mothers, were never married.
The legislation that was recently passed, has reduced the poverty rate of children by 40%.
Poverty rates for the elderly was also greatly reduced by the “War on Poverty”.
Correlation. They were dropping before the programs and government funding is dependence, not dropping poverty.
And?
No it hasn’t.
No they weren’t.
Poverty shifting is not dropping poverty.
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…as a direct result of those programs. They financially substituted the father and pay single mothers more, the more kids they have. Do you see how the intent was good but the results make it to where this legislation needs to be revisited? The violence in inner cities is a direct result of this…no father in the home.
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To progs, gubmint is a better daddy than daddy.
That must be demoralizing to the men who otherwise would feel compelled to meet their responsibility. Hmmmm… when you make a man superfluous in a society, with no respect or sense of responsibility, I wonder where he turns to gain some self respect.
So…you believe, those teenage mothers…planned to get pregnant, thinking the life of a welfare is ideal?
Maybe a very small % of them…but usually, it is lack of education, lack of contraceptives, and lack of good parenting.
The vast majority of people utilizing those benefits do so out of necessity, and are not on them long term.
Whatever caricature you have dreamed up about progressives/liberals may meet that criteria…in the real world…nope.
Enjoy Earth 2!
Do you believe that some teen who might have a child on her own would take into account that the government would pay them sustenance instead of having no foreseeable way to look after the child other than rely on relatives and work part time, or are they imbeciles?
When prevention is so easy, there is no excuse for an unwanted pregnancy…period.
That said, the social programs need to be reworked to have better outcomes. I’ve mentioned here in Hannity Land the idea of financially rewarding a family for good grades on a report card. We need to do something because continuing down this path…and expecting different results…is…INSANE.
It’s a lack of cognitive ability, not education. And no, the latter cannot make up for the former.
No. They don’t plan to not get pregnant.
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There is no such thing.
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They didn’t “plan” at all…and that’s the point.
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And many didn’t have proper parental or “village” guidance to formulate such a plan.
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Not one explanation. Tsk, tsk.
Ahhh so you support free, easily available BC for teens?
Do you support free, easily available BC for teens?
