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.