...and I am here to tell you, this article barely touches the myriad of problems with putting mothers to work dead end jobs that do little or nothing to support their families. It leave kids behind without a mother, or any community support for the family ans for latch key kids as young as 5 years old. States are actually supplementing businesses with childcare help ~ and get this, it costs taxpayors almost twice as much as if a mother stays home and actually IS a mom. She is forced into the workforce when her child is barely 3 months old, still breast feeding and she is not allowed to raise her child ior go to school even if she needs a GED. DSHS cares little whether or not the job actually can support a family ~ even below minimum wage jobs are considered making the mother "successful".
Oh. And over 70% of welfare families are there because they fled domestic violence for the mother and/or the kids.
If you want to know more, you can visit the organization I volunteer for:
http://www.wroc.org. My state (WA) is more generous, but our (Dem) governor is going to impose full family sanctions on families, this means that mothers who cannot comply will lose any support ~ and so will their kids, they are going to be thrown to the street, all of them. DSHS themselves say over half the non-compliers have serious barriers that make it impossible to work that McJob and become trapped itno permanent poverty: no childcare, no transportation, no jobs in their communities, the mother or child are disabled and moms don't even have cllothing to go to an interview or buy uniforms.
These women are raising the next generation. I often will ask a childless person who complains about helping these mothers, that with their thinking, they are paying their parents' social security and Medicare ~ then why should someone else's kids pay theirs? So, with their thinking, if the mother sacrificed and raised her kids without the help of society, then maybe she should be rewarded for her service with all childless people's social security money since the point of this system is that the next generation supports to former one. Of course this is a ridiculous suggestion, but the point is raising a family IS a contribution that deserves lots of support. support.
I would add, much less why should they depend upon the next generation to run this country when that childless person is too old to to it? Are they planning then to get out there at 80 years old and fight the next war? Change your OWN depends even if you are bedridden and childless, you lazy elder! So raising children IS contributing. But with the current thinking, raising children is "doing nothing" and Welfare DEformed codified this attitude into law in 1996.
Cat in Seattle