food stamps- wellfare, women with 6 kids!?

Question

does anyone think it right for women to have 5 or 6 kids- no daddy, and living on tax payers $$$?

It makes me so angry when I see a woman with 5 or six kids, living on the system, foodstamps, wellfare, and driving a brand new car, or SUV, dripping in gold, wearing better clothing and very expensive tennis shoes than mst, all the while living on tax payers dollars.
AND these same women keep having more, and more babies! if you know you cannot support your first child, why keep having more? AND most thhe time they don't even know who the father is!
just watch Maury Povich- it is PATHETIC!

Answer 1

I can't believe all these people supporting the welfare system!!! I totally agree with the person asking the question!! To Rosey: Sorry, but why aren't you working? This could prevent you being on welfare. Don't give the load of crap about needing to stay home and take care of a child. Do what the rest of us hard working people do and juggle your schedules around. Rosey has no excuse!! I do see on a every day basis people driving brand new cars and on Medicaid and food stamps. There is something called responsibility and birth control. If you can't support a child, don't have one!! Be responsible for you own actions. I just want to know how all these people answering positively about this question and are on welfare can afford a computer and Internet? Sorry, but I see more people abusing the system than not. These people have cell phones, tattoos, they smoke and drink and have their nails professionally done. I work in a medical center and see this stuff every day. This makes me angry too!! My husband and I both work and struggle to make ends meet and I would never even think about filing for welfare. I would work two jobs before doing that. Welfare is good for disabled people and in certain circumstances, but there are way too many people on it that don't need to be!!

Answer 2

I don't know about having five or six children, but my husband is a truck driver and we are on public assistance. We have one child. I think you are right if both parents are at home and collecting a check. The system is set up a little differently no were you can only get cash assistance for a short amount of time and believe me its not much. As far as I know you can only get cash assistance if there is no income coming into the household at all. In a short while my husband and I will not qualify for any assistance, because he makes too much money, but my son will stay on with the medical until he is a year old. Anyway, like I said, I do agree with you to a certain exstent, but there are also people out there who work really hard and still can't make end meet and need help. Just my two cense worth.

Answer 3

What some people don't realize is that people (like my mom who drives a BMW) have the kids of their irresponsible siblings and get public assistance for taking care of the kids. That's why you might see someone with a nice car at the welfare office. As far as abusing it, that's wrong...

*note* Oh yeah, I don't know about any other states, but in California, if you get on welfare when you have your first kid, you won't get cash aid for any of the kids after the first one just foodstamps...So having more babies isn't really profitable to anyone abusing the system...I think they do it simply because they are irresponsible...

Answer 4

As far as welfare goes like receiving actual cash money you can only receive it for 5yrs total in your entire life. So if you use it up that is it. And food stamps they have to work or be in college to receive them you can't just sit at home and do nothing, not with welfare reform of the 90's. So they are not really milking the system they still are paying for most of their child support. Also when you go in the make you go after the father for child support.

Social Worker i know the system

Answer 5

People are only allowed to have it for five years in their entire lifetime. Having more kids won't get them more time. So they won't have it forever, and once their time is up they will have to deal with the consequences of having so many kids.

But a good majority are not abusing it, its just that we only notice the ones who do. The kids that you see may be from a relative and they are suddenly taking care of them. Or maybe they actually had a good amount of money and then all the sudden lost everything. Do you expect them to just sell everything and dress like paupers and drive a car that barely runs?

Think about all the reasons they may have that many kids, or all those nice things before you come to a conclusion.

Answer 6

Spend more time worrying about your self and less time picking on welfare recipients. Most of them are in situations that couldn't be avoided and are doing the best they can. I have never met one who drove an SUV and the last time I checked, jewelry wasn't against the law.

If you think you know a case of fraud, report it, but keep your venom to yourself.

"Get a job." so much easier said then done. I live in a smal rural town. Most of the work to be had is manufacturing. I am also 7 months pregnant. When I got preggo, I was married and everything was okay. Too bad my husband decided he didn't want to be married anymore. He took oof one day while I was at work. I couldn't do anything but move home with the two kids I already had. Are we supposed to starve because things happened I couldn't foresee. I mean, you walk into a factory being odviously pregnant and try to convince someone you are a good candidate to hire.

So yeah, I get welfare. I manage to feed my self and my kids on less then $400 a month. I use medicaid so that the baby I am carrying has a chance of being healthy. And when I have it, I'll go to work.

Like I said, no one sits around dreaming of ending up on welfare, and you shouldn't make judgments about people until you have been in their situation for a while.

Answer 7

I think it is a bunch of crap. I know one chick (used to live by her - NOT my friend) who has a kid every two years to insure she never has to work - plus she claims to be disabled (ADHD/head problems) yet her so-called disability doesn't stop her from getting knocked up or going to bars. Hell, she even beat the crap out of one kid and never lost custody since the kid has "no" father. She gets free housing, food stamps, her kids have a medical card, her babies get free formula and stuff, and goodwill donated a car to her last year - not to mention around Christmas last year she was featured in the paper as someone who needed "help" getting her kids gifts and clothes. Meanwhile I work hard to make ends meet, my insurance doesn't cover being pregnant, and I make too much to even get any assistance. It is a crock of s**t in my opinion. Here I am trying to help myself, and perhaps I need a little help at this point (for the first time in my life to be exact), and I am turned down because I actually work. Something in America isn't right and people like her should be sterilized or locked up for abusing the system.

Answer 8

I agree. I have seen women like this. Not only are they dripping in gold, driving fancy new cars and living in government subsidized housing but they don't use the money on the children as it is intended. The children are raggedy, dirty with snotty noses. It is a complete disgrace. I know that not all the women get assistance are this way but I have seen plenty who are. Welfare is meant to be a temporary fix but some become become career welfare recipients by popping out babies left and right. To Alyce, she is not speaking of everyone on welfare only those who abuse the system. I was in Toys R Us one day and heard a women say that she was going to have another baby so that She can get more money on her check and so that she can buy a stroller that she was looking at. I think that everyone understands if you are in true financial need but if they cannot afford to feed their children than how can they afford all the jewelry and expensive clothing? I have personally seen some of them in new cars and designer clothes with NO jobs. No one is condemning anyone who needs help because I think that most people may have needed help from some place or another in their lives but some take advantage of a system that was only created to help not to be a persons only source of income.

Answer 9

Honey, that is really stereotypical about what you're saying. There are a few that do it, but not too many. And fyi.. many of the people on welfare have one to 2 children. Check the nat statistics on welfare and poverty honey. A woman that was over those programs came to my womens studies class came and basically shattered the myths about people on welfare. you don't have to have 5 or 6 kids to be on welfare now. And welfare isn't what it used to be. There's been many welfare reforms, and you can only be on it for so long. And now days there's no way you could be on it and have all of that going on. because TANF is very temporary and it's a stand in until child support kicks in.. so the "tax payers" aren't paying all this money that you think. and you have to get a job without pay to pay that money back or go to school, and the father is still getting away with it until child support finally comes through. But 17,000 is on the poverty line.. and that's like, what 7.00 an hour FULL TIME. So why work and still be on the poverty line. And you know that middle and low income people get taxed more than higher brackets because true, the more you make the more they take, but you also get to itemize and get more tax cuts and shelters. But what I don't understand is that there are people that work and with children and they don't get food stamps or other assistance if they apply even if you are on the poverty line. My aunt has 6 children and she has never no new car, house, nothing like that. She been trying to make ends meet on welfare, so I don't know where you getting your information from. AND she has a husband because his deadbeat self has been without a decent job for so long, and yes we wondering why she has all these children, so it can't all be for the welfare because if that was the case she should be rich. But it's funny because the same people bitching about where the tax dollars go are the same ones complaining about pro life and abortion. You don't want the woman to abort yet you don't want to pay tax dollars for welfare. True enough, a woman shouldn't have a bunch of baby daddies and what not, but it's easy for a man to abandon his responsibility, so don't take it out all on a woman even though she has a lot of accountability. Let's face it.. regardless of what you do, UNCLE SAM is gonna take is cut and put it where ever he wants it to go; it's out of our control. Unless you're gonna get up on Capitol Hill and lobby and protest about where your dollars off your paycheck goes, then I would fall back on that.

PS: I'm guessing you're white and you're well to do off. Here's a reality check: The majority of people on welfare are WHITE, why? because whites are the MAJORITY! They just expose blacks and other minorities to make us look like the trash we're being portrayed to be. You're point is far off the mark as far as abuse, so do your homework and leave your shallow stereo types to yourself, because unless you have a rich bloodline, someone in your family was in need and got assistance unless they just wanted to be homeless and eat out of a trashcan. And you're dumb if you believe all the women on Maury now are coming on there for forgetting who the daddy is.. they just be bringing men on the show they knowing they didn't have sex to get a free show,, duh...

Answer 10

Yes. I think it's wrong when anyone abuses the system. However these woman on Maury are probably just there for ratings.

As far as people collecting welfare and having nice things--they may have had a turn for the worse or a bit of bad luck. Should we expect them to sell of their items just because they've hit a rough patch? I don't think so.

I'm not on government assistance. I have a hard time with people who abuse it but I'm all for people using it in times of need--for a brief period.