Does our welfare system encourage people to have children for financial gain?

Question

Those of you who claim that the money will go for the support of the child are living in a fantasy world. I believe it will go more toward supporting alcohol and drug addiction. The children will become foster children. It is child abuse to have a child you cannot support.

Welfare applicants should be required to pass drug and alcohol testing.

I am a very decent person who is sick and tired of seeing of children in the foster care system because the parent(s) did not want to or could not care for them.

Answer 1

In fact it does. I have seen first hand literally generations of individuals who view and use the propagation of offspring as a "profession" so to speak. Each new child is viewed as a raise as it were encouraging them to breed like rabbits for profit. In fact, actually knowing who the "baby daddy" actually is, is detrimental to this profitable financial endeavor, as the state will actively pursue them to reclaim monies expended on these wards of the state and taxpayers. Further, these offspring invariably follow in the foot steps of their predecessor. Having learned how to effectively manipulate to welfare system for fun and profit, they have absolutely no intention whatsoever to better themselves as the welfare system in this country in essence encourages them to stay in the system.
This is at the root of the nauseating pandering of the liberal Democrat politicians to the so called oppressed, unfortunate "poor". The left does not want these parasites to better themselves as that would alleviate a great percentage of their voting power base. The liberal left politico is the root of this evil.

Answer 2

I don't believe it all goes on alcohol and drugs but many young kids who lack love at home and haven't done well at school have babies too early in order to have a family life. This means that many children are born into families that can't cope and this means trouble. Welfare money makes this possible.

I don't think benefits are high, although child benefits would make it higher. However you couldn't have a serious drink/drug/tobacco problem on benefit money. It'd take too much.

this is such a bad problem that we should attack it in many ways; make benefits higher but conditional on further learning or other targets, make alcohol and drugs become more expensive for the target group. (Many use smuggled cigarettes, and cheap booze brought in across the channel). To ignore it means the future of our peace in towns across the country is gone.

Answer 3

No but it may have too soon.
Few native born Americans is causing the USA to head into the Furture as an OLD COUNTRY like Japan, Russia, and England.
People are not having many kids. When Regean lowered the drinking age to 18 years old from 21 years old 1000's of American kids were killed. *** that to the number lost in Vietnam and well Immigrants are needed.

Answer 4

I think part of the problem is how sexual abuse, incest and domestic violence affects kids in all level of an SES, ( socio economic stratus ) . not just the poor ones. I am aware how the destructive behaviors that pass from generation to generation are not easily mitigated or within the resources of our social workers or courts to manage.
But no I don't think your premise is valid. It takes 4 generations to break out of a cycle of poverty...I often wonder if there ought to be a parenting license for people who want to have kids.

Answer 5

Yes. Any time government provides handouts there is a large opportunity for abuse. I've seen questions on this forum from people looking to get around the system and abuse it for personal gain. Welfare and other programs that "rob from the hard-working and give to the lazy" have to be done away with. I'm far from rich but I've never taken a handout from anyone and never will. But in return I should be allowed to keep what's mine.

I'm all for helping out those truly in need but government mandates hurt more than they help. Charity should be kept in the private sector and we, as individuals, should be allowed to decide on our own how we help the truly disadvantage.

Answer 6

How do you propose to deal with people lack the means to support a child, but nonetheless bring a new life into being? Mandatory abortion? Remove the child to foster care, at an even greater cost to your public treasury and providing funds for the child's needs to the parent or caretaker? Incarcerate the parents, at you more public expense? Yeah, it sucks that people have kids they can't afford to support, now how are you going to stop them? Punish the kids for getting themselves born?

Answer 7

You are an angry person who obviously has never lived paycheck to paycheck with young children to feed. The tragic thing is that these people are usually poorly educated and often have psychological problems such as alcoholism -- and you seem to think the best thing to do is remove any support system and let them and their children live/die on the streets.

If you think a significant number of people are purposely having children in order to get extra money from the government then you are the one living in a fantasy world. Please, learn to have some compassion and stop being such a greedy hateful person.

Answer 8

Well since there is a 5 year LIFETIME limit what's to gain God some people worry about welfare mothers but don't give a damn about the fact that more money goes for COPORATE WELAFRE than social welfare why aren't you P.O.'d at EXXON for getting $12 million in Fed money while setting a record profit year for any corporation EVER - 37 BILLION your priorities are just wonderful no wonder the country's going all to hell

Answer 9

There are literally millions of brain dead men and women who have never heard of any type of birth control and don't give a damn....welfare begets welfare and non wed mothers beget non wed mothers!!! It is outrageous in the black community that over 70% of the households have no father figure in the home..unbelievable!!

Answer 10

I agree with the drug testing. That would save us a bundle, as over 50% of them would be likely to fail. Then we could kick them off the dole!