Should unwed welfare mothers..?

Question

Thats only form of employment is trying to get as many "baby's daddys" as possible inorder to recieve more goverment money and help, be told how many children they can have? The goverment is the one suppporting the children anyways.

Oh shut up Jahpson, you really annoy me. :)

Answer 1

Yeah, there should be. We are the ones supporting them, not the government. My husband and I are the ones out busting our butts, working jobs that we hate so our kids can have the best things in life, saving for our kids to go to college and trying to show them that hard work does get you somewhere in life. We aren't collecting any type of government assistance and we do live a fairly comfortable lifestyle, but at the same time we are not only supporting our family, but other peoples families. It makes me soooo mad to hear of people (not just single mothers) sitting on their butts at home collecting welfare or having babies to just get welfare (or child support from several different men) just so they don't have to work.

Government assistance is there for TEMPORARY help...It's NOT a lifestyle!

Answer 2

Maybe they should get their "babies daddies" to pay child support so the government will not have to pay to raise them, Not all welfare moms sit back and wait on a check,some work, some go to school to train for a job. Some welfare single parents babies daddy died or was killed and they were forced to take welfare because the daddy was the only one working, I have had to use Welfare , I am not what you described at all.There are people like that who abuse the system. But you only here the bad things. How often is a welfare to work mom recognized for thier progress. Welfare for one child is 352.00 a month how do you pay rent and utilities as high as they are and buy pampers for the child, yes you get food stamps about 250.00 for the month then if you have a tot formula is 15.00 a can. who would choose to live like this? Yes there needs to be reform such as a time limit. But not aborting a child. alimit on how many children they will pay for, good idea.

Answer 3

What does being unwed have to do with it. There's a lot of people who are married and abusing welfare, as well. And how would you prove that their sole objective is to have as many different fathers as possible. I think that's just a judgment on your part and may not be actual fact. I think I have more knowledge about this because i've actually lived in a city where there are a lot of welfare recepients and women do not actively seek multiple "baby daddys" for the sole purpose of collecting additional welfare. The end doesn't justify the means at all. Why would someone choose to another kid, just so they can get an extra hundred a month. Yea, there's a few people who are complete idiots and do stupid crap like that, but most of these welfare recepients are just dumb people who don't use any methods of birth control.

As for the government deciding how many children someone can have, it is unconstitutional in any way you look at it.

I think there should be a definite time frame, though. People shouldn't be allowed to remain on welfare indefinitely. But, for many, they're in a dead end situation where they are unskilled, undeducated with five babies pulling at their hems, so it's pretty hard to actually get off welfare.

But, yea, there needs to be some sort of reform to thwart abuse.

Answer 4

Yes, I think the welfare system should put a limit on how many births they'll pay for as well as how many children they should support. And 2 sounds like a fair number, most people that can afford children without help only have 2 in order to insure they can provide a good life for their children. I also think that all welfare parents should have to have employment once the youngest of the 2 is in school or lose their benefits.

Answer 5

Once is a mistake (maybe). Twice is a pattern of behavior. It's definitely selfish parenting, even irresponsible. Children DESERVE 2 parents. Children DESERVE stability. Children DESERVE a home and food. Children DESERVE proper medical attention. If a parent can NOT provide these things on their own then they shoulld NOT be having children. It's humiliating for a child to grow up in this situation. It scars them for life. Parents that willingly have child after child with baby-daddy after baby-daddy are SELFISH. Whatever their reasoning. Whether it's for the money, or because they want someone to "love" them or because they are trying to bind a man to them who just doesn't want to marry them it's NOT in the best interest of the child.

I'd like to propose mandatory birth control for women who have a child supported by the welfare system UNTIL they can get their act together and get OFF the system. Not the pill either, because they just won't take it. It would have to be either the injections or the inplant.

Answer 6

It's difficult, I would like to say yes, the government only pays for the first child, or twins if that is the case, but in fairness, most people don't go out to get pregnant, so they get more money,

If it is found that the pregnancy was conceived through a one night stand, then I believe the mother is responsible for caring for the child at her own expense, I believe the mother should know the babies father, with a one night stand she might know his name but nothing else.

A break down of a relationship is not so easy to judge, these mums to be could have felt secured in a relationship before falling pregnant.

To me men should make sure they don't become fathers if they don't want to, and the only way for that to happen is to sustain from having intercourse or wear condoms or have the snip, that way no man can be forced into fatherhood without knowing.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

ok lets jump on the other side of the situation here. lets try to see from the eyes of an unwed mother or anyone else on welfare. how would u like to be told u could only have 1 child? how would u feel readin on a website that someone is cuttin u down cause u was 15 and not allowed to marry or work yet? or maybe theres that rape baby born and someone didnt have the heart to let it go or abort it? yall are monsters plain monsters. wutever happened to help ur neighbor or the doin a good deed for someone each day? wut happens when somethin happens to u where u can not work and hafta rely on welfare to help u raise ur kids? or u have that baby with down syndrome or somethin serious wrong where u cant work? where u gonna turn? WELFARE!!!!

Answer 9

I think they should.I think they should also make every girl go on some form of birth control until they r an adult which would b 19 n if 1 should become pregnant then she goes to a home of all girls n lives there n takes parenting classes n school whatever they r to b doing.I just don't think kids should b having kids.I also agree that they shouldn't allow anyone on welfare to keep having child after child so the government has to keep paying.Make them go on birth control n random drug testing.

Answer 10

As a tax payer I am angered by people who have used the system to simply pop out kids to get money. It's a shame that this is the only representation of the welfare system we are given. I know of people who have had to be on the welfare system because they genuinely needed it not because they are "lazy".

In America we have whats called a meritocracy-meaning you have what you have due to your own merit, or what you have earned. We assume that the homeless are in their current state because they are lazy and simply dont want to work, thus justifying us not giving them money as we blindly walk by them. We assume and generalize that all people on welfare are on it because they are uneducated and lazy and unwilling to work and if they truly desired to not be poor or homeless that they would simply stop and everything would magically be better. As in all generalizations there is probably some truth to it but certainly by far the majority of people on government assisted programs are people with jobs that arent being paid enough to support themselves and their families.

So perhaps instead of asking why people not get jobs and stop mooching, maybe you should ask why does our government doesnt put in place programs that will aid those in need(i.e more after care programs for kids, free day care for working adults that cannot afford it, better health care, free job training, ect.) that will actually help people.