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To: Poet who wrote (18406)7/29/2002 12:17:54 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 21057
 
How much is due to the change in Welfare laws? How much to cultural factors?
And maybe those cultural factors are due to changes in welfare laws?

There was a time when welfare was much, much harder to get than it is even now with the tightening up. And having a child out of wedlock was considered a disgrace. And a man was expected to marry a woman he got pregnant, then support her. And divorce was much harder to get.

And it worked. People adapted to and lived with and supported that system. You might not like the way it worked, but many people did.
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