You seem to think that having a large family is a "Right". I think personal responsibility should include not expecting others to pay for your wants. It is SELFISH to place personal "WANTS" over the "NEEDS" when one brings children into the world. The "Welfare Entittlement" state of mind has proved to be a poison to our society. One mistake is understandable, however NO ONE has the "RIGHT" to expect society to pay for a persons desire to multiply like a rabbit. Please quit reproducing if you can't feed and clothe those you already have! Use protection. Stuntman > > Not all single women have children just to receive a welfare check every > month. Do you think it is fun to live like that? There are many women who > work full time jobs, and have to have government assistance to survive. You > should not have to give up your child because you are financially unstable. > By the time I was 19, I had three children. I worked two full time > jobs, but still couldn't make it. I had food stamps, and lowered rent, but I > deserved my children just as much as a woman who was married and financially > stable. > And for the women who don't work, many times you can't win for losing. > If you work, you do not earn enough to to raise a family, and if you apply for > benefits, you don't receive enough assistance to even help make a difference. > By the time you add child care for when you do go to work, you still have > nothing. If you quit your job, you are then eligible for more assistance, and > you can live better than if you were working. It is no way to live, but you do > what you have to do to survive. > Now for those women who don't even try to better themselves or the lives > for their children, is unexceptable. But they should not have to adopt out > their children. Until you have had to live in the system and raise children, you > should not judge whether they deserve to have and keep their children. You > could one day have to depend on food stamps, welfare, and lowered rent to raise > your kids, because you aren't guaranteed a stable life. Would it be fair to > say that a mother who is disabled should have to adopt out their child? No! > It is a struggle depending on the government to raise your family, but > it doesn't make you any less deserving of a family, a bad mom, or any less of a > person. If anything needs to change, it is the way the system works. Better > assistance should be available for those mothers who are working, that way > they can get on their feet, become stable, and come out of the system and > poverty. For the mothers who did not want to work, they would have to become > employed in order to best utilize their resources, and would see that working is > more beneificial than welfare. The welfare system makes it impossible to get > back on your feet when you have hit rock bottom. > As far as teenage pregnancy, yes, it is irresponsible. We have all > made decisions as teens that were not responsible, but we are only human. Who > are we to judge one another anyway? I do believe that we all have our flaws!!! > > > Well, kids and single women are having babies and living off of the system. > > � They get money to raise the baby, money off of rent, food stamps, and > > other things they may be eligible for.� It is a shame.� I think those people > > should be forced to give their babies up for adoption or after having a couple > > they should.� So many of these women have 4,5 or more kids.� I know a woman > > from back home that has 7 and doesn't work because she gets so much help. > > Stacy > > > > >
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