Do you think women on welfare should be limited to one child?

Question

I do. I had as many kids as I could afford. Why should I have to pay for some promiscuous woman to have 10 kids with 10 different fathers?

I have nothing against limited short term public assistance. If someone has fallen on hard times I do not mind helping.
I DO NOT want to help the ones who PLAN to have a bunch of kids and make US pay for them.
I do not believe in abortion and these welfare moms are NOT the ones having abortions. They milk the system.

YES - the fathers should pay but you N.O.W. women want all the rights to your kids (abort at will without dad's permission)
so I guess if you're pregnant ---most of the responsibilty falls to you. Can't have it both ways ladies.

Enforce it - give benefits for only 1 child.
If she has another she has to find a way to support it. If she can't support number 2 - sterilization! Sounds harsh - but there are some people who have only1 kid because that's all they can afford.

Fritz - LOL

Answer 1

A much simpler solution would be to offer free crack to anyone willing to be sterilized.

Answer 2

i'm from the south just to let you know, i believe i read an article about some states up north that allowed a woman to collect welfare for herself and however many children she had when she went into the system, but if she had any more children she would not get any more money, they also went after the fathers
and required the mothers to go to job training, etc i don't see
anything unfair about that better than laying around reproducing all the time i saw some people on TV talking about how handicapped they were but they weren't too handicapped not to make babies every 9 months i think some people are just too lazy to bother with birth control

Answer 3

I think that all state funded welfare programs should be phased out altogether. While it is appropriate and necessary for charitable organizations which provide temporary services to the able bodied and long term services to the disabled, such organizations should be funded by private voluntary donations. No matter how "unfair" it may seem that some people have more than others; no one should be forced to pay for the education, room, board, medical or any other expenses of anyone other than their own and those of their minor children.

Taxes should only be collected in the manner and for the purposes specifically enumerated in the constitution.

There was a time when a system such as the one in place today, would be inconceivable in the United States of America. Even taxpayer funding for disaster relief was highly contraversial.

The quote below was from the transcripts of a congressional session in which a proposed bill was being discussed to assist a Navel Hero's widow with her living expenses. The Speaker, Davy Crockett offered to give a weeks pay to the cause and pointed out that if every member of congress did the same, then the amount of money pooled would be more than the bill called for. Unfortunately not one of the others was willing to meet Crockett's offer.

"...We have the right, as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity, but as members of Congress we have no right to so appropriate a dollar of the public money..." Davy Crockett.

Answer 4

Congratulations that your birth control always worked and/or you had access to and money to pay for abortions. And do you want the limits to apply only to women who are promiscuous? And how do you define that -- 2 partners? 5? 15? Do you want to penalize women on welfare who have their 10 kids with the same father? What if she is on welfare because her job was outsourced to India? Or she worked for Enron? Do you support sex education and free and open access to family planning?

I don't like the idea of paying for people to have excess kids either, and that includes those who get to take tax deductions for their 10 kids so they are paying way less income tax than me and using way more of the public school services than me.

Try being a little less self-righteous, a little less judgmental, and devote your energy and attention to something constructive, kiddo.

Answer 5

Instead of making the government dictate to people how many children they have, how about better laws and a better system to make the daddies pay for their kids. Why is it the woman's fault that she has all the kids? Someone somewhere is making a promise to someone. I am thinking it is not the woman promising to give the guy a kid. . .

Answer 6

I think that we should go after the fathers of those 10 kids and make them support their kids. There would be less women on welfare if the deadbeats out there had to own up to their responsibilities.

Answer 7

With the birth of a child, the mother SHOULD Be required to IDENTIFY the father of the child, and DNA testing should be done -- and then TAG the guy she has slept with for the amount of the welfare payments and anything else they can get out of him!

That is the way it is in my state -- you have a child, you MUST name the father and have DNA done before benefits are awarded for the child.

Answer 8

No. Unless you want to be Communist China and let government dictate everything involving your personal life, you are stuck with some of the burden of paying for others' "mistakes" and poor decisions. I shouldn't have to pay more for health care for smokers, or overweight people or people who don't wear motorcycle helmets, but that is just life.

Answer 9

Communism is NOT the answer...

Make them responsible for thier own and they will make it work...

The more you give, the more they want..

Give them what they need to get on thier feet and weene them off.. they will survive and take off.. It is a natural instinct of the Human spirit..

Answer 10

I think anyone who is on welfare who has another baby, should not get any more benifits.

People will say, "don't make the kid suffer". Well, tell that to the mother.

Answer 11

Certainly! I am tired of going to work to support other peoples children.