Newt Gingrich and Ali G on Welfare
This is one area where I consider myself pretty conservative.
When I was in college 16 years ago, I knew a girl who was on welfare. The government paid for her apartment, daycare, and college. This was all because she got pregnant and the guy didn’t want to marry her.
After seeing the benefits she received, having a baby to get the same benefits looked really tempting. I wonder how many girls had less common sense than I did, and actually did have a baby so they would be all set.
I also had a relative who had a child every four years to stay on welfare. They all had different fathers, and she had five of them. She had started out around 20 and had the 5th one around 40. She seduced a teenage guy in her neighborhood for the last one. She probably should have gone to prison.
What is even more sad, is boys need fathers as a roll model. Some times they need someone to give them a kick in the butt. There are exceptions to every rule, but I have known many people with step parents: including my mother and my husband. In most cases they step parent treated them like a third class citizen. They didn’t love them the way they loved their own children.
I believe if you are going to have a child, the most important thing in the world you can do is raise that child well. It is our civic duty to raise our children well. The rest of society will have to deal with these people. There are exceptions to every statistic, but I do think this is something liberal people tend to downplay to the detriment of society.
Family values has nothing to do with religion. It has everything to do with logic.
