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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (245452)	2/24/2014 7:44:44 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 542049

I don't see what you can do about it. If you cut poor unwed mothers off of assistance, you hurt the kids- potentially hurting them enough that they'll never rise above their mother's cycle of poverty. If you try to go after more affluent mothers, what are you going to do? Give them tax credits for marrying? And you'll have to give those to everyone- gays and straights, or it won't be equal protection. Seems to me, society has changed. Divorce is easy, and men are not very interested in raising children, so mothers get stuck with the kids. I don't see an easy way to change that. I don't see people being very eager to walk back from easy divorce laws. Do you? A lot of blustering and demagoguing aside, what do the republicans really have to offer? Mostly they just want to target poor moms on assistance- some of the weakest and most vulnerable people in our society, raising the weakest and most vulnerable. If "debates" in this country actually took the welfare of people in to account, I'd be more interested in them. But posturing, and blaming the victims (mothers and children) seems pretty stupid to me.

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