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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: bentway who wrote (230321)8/29/2013 3:19:04 PM
From: KyrosL  Read Replies (3) of 542656
 
Welfare should not depend on whether or not both parents are present in the household. And welfare or income support should be accompanied by comprehensive free child care as well as a requirement that parents, single or not, must work or actively look and accept any kind of available work. Such a system will cost a lot more than the current system because of the expense of child care, but it is the only system that does not result in destruction of families, which in the long run results in much greater cost to society.

It's interesting that the destruction of families is now rapidly spreading to working class whites, who avoid getting married and increasingly have children out of wedlock, because of the incentives provided by food stamps and other income support to single parent households. I have witnessed it first hand among friends of my son. The couple typically stays together for some time raising the child or children, but without a marriage it's much easier to break up and end up with a single parent family.
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