Omelet wrote:
> In article >,
> Dave Smith > wrote:
>
>>> There are some who are making every effort to pull themselves up by their
>>> bootstraps and to work or actively seek employment. Unfortunately, they
>>> seem to be in the vast minority.
>> I don't know what the solution is. You can't let them starve, but I
>> resent having to help support people who will not support themselves and
>> those who cannot support themselves and then have more children than
>> they cannot afford. I also resent the attempts to insinuate that those
>> who point out the obvious are passed off as sexist and racist by
>> claiming that most welfare recipients are single white men. The facts do
>> not support that. In fact, it is the exact opposite.
>
> The vast majority are the children of unwed mothers.
>
> Outlaw reproduction outside of wedlock?
>
> Yah, right.
>
> <sigh>

Well, that was certainly not my suggestion. I had no children out of
wedlock. I accepted responsibility for raising my son and have never
collected welfare.


> The solution is education. Truly.
>
> Statistically, educated women have fewer children. That's especially
> been proven in India.

That certainly seems to be the case in North America where a lot of
women go on to post secondary education and postpone motherhood until
after they have established a career. Meanwhile, lots of women are
dropping out of school and having children and lack the financial means
to raise their children. Then they face hurdles finding a job because
they need to go back to school to upgrade their education and skills or
end up in minimum wage jobs where they earn so little they cannot afford
day care.

Sadly, welfare has become a viable alternative to working for some
people. For many people it is short term relief and they get back on
their feet within a few months or a few years. For many others it
becomes a way of life and gets passed on to their children.

FWIW.... a little anecdotal tidbit.... I knew a family on welfare. The
father had a few short term jobs but sabotaged his employment when he
had enough time in to collect unemployment insurance, which would then
run out and they would be back on welfare. One of the daughters moved
out to live on her own..... on welfare. The other daughter was a little
brighter and went on to college. Half way through her first year at
college she set out to get pregnant. She did not want to finish her two
year college course and then get pregnant. She wanted to have a baby and
then go back to school. She was successful, if you can call getting
pregnant and not being able to complete college success. She and her
boyfriend ended up on welfare, and the last I heard she was a single
parent living on welfare. So much for education.


What do you do in a case like that. He is a woman who was raised on
welfare, whose college education subsidized and received student grants,
who had the opportunity to get education and training to help her find
meaningful employment. But she knew that the system would support her,
so she intentionally got herself pregnant knowing that she could stay
home and not have to work. That was the way she was raised, and there is
a good chance that her kid will grow up with the same mind set.