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To: epicure who wrote (246167)	3/2/2014 2:33:27 PM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542152

I've seen such a system work for white middle class teenagers in the 1950's in suburban NJ. That's all I can say about it. I have also personally seen teen age women who wanted to get out of the house have a kid as their ticket to do so and move into government subsidized housing with a welfare check. So that has been the "cause' and "effect' for me. I would bet you almost any amount of reasonable money that cutting off welfare going forward would significantly reduce the out of wedlock birth rate and give a kid a shot of having two semi functional --read working--parents to start their life with. It's certainly gotta be worth a shot compared to what your faced with in terms of having to deal with kids who only eat when at school and binge on Red Bull etc.