Posted by
Jonathan Cooke on Tuesday, September 11, 2007 2:40:24 PM
Single Parent Female Households Top Welfare Recipients.
Being avidly against our ever-encroaching Nanny State, and rampant Liberalism I was wondering today what affects our nation’s liberal policies have had upon the percentage of participation in our Welfare machine. I was curious as to the rise in welfare entitlement dependency and found something rather interesting.
Since I’ve often heard about the liberation of women raising children by themselves, without the need of a father in the child’s upbringing, it was fascinating to learn that only 6.6% of the recipients of government welfare are married. It would seem that marriage is to welfare what holy water is to vampires.
As to those liberated new-age women? Well it seems that households maintained solely by women are 5 times more likely to participate in the welfare system. [1]. That doesn’t sound very liberating to me. Now I was expecting somewhat of a parallel with families being raised solely by a male, since being a single parent is difficult. Nope. The single father households only accounted for 16 percent, compared to the greater than double rate of 37 percent of female run families using the welfare system. [1].
So much for that liberated new turkey-baster inseminated modern woman argument I’ve been hearing for so long. If you’re going to raise a child, that child still needs a mother and a father apparently, and married ones at that. I’m glad the world hasn’t changed that much yet.
Jonathan RF Cooke
September 11th, 2007
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References
1. (Dynamics of Economic Well-Being: Program Participation, 1996 to 1999 Who Gets Assistance? Published January 2004 by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration.)