Isn't it interesting how ideas have consequences? Seemingly innocent programs enacted by well meaning government officials create quagmires of unseen proportions. You would think legislation as innocent sounding as the Child Nutrition Act, passed by Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1965, and expanding Aid to Families with Dependent Children,(AFDC), and FDR program Would be a good thing. But then almost everything passed by the progressive caucus has strings attached.
AFDC was original purpose was to aid widows who had lost their husbands and now lacked a bread winner to help support dependent children. LBJ expanded the program to loosen the eligibility,(and win votes), to include any woman living alone with children. This created a new wave of unwed mothers, out-of-wedlock births, and single motherhood. No longer would the possibility of a lifetime of poverty be a deterrent to pre-marital sex or dissuade someone from dropping out of school. As a result millions of women suddenly discovered that they could be better off financially by not marrying. The result has been particularly devastating; In 1960 only 5.3% of all children were born out of wedlock. Today the figure hovers around 40%.
Marriage used to be the greatest anti-poverty program ever conceived, allowing for two incomes to support the family. Poverty was quite the birth control agent, pre-enactment of these programs. Now we've traded that for abortion. The family unit of the 1960's has been crushed, and the short sightedness of the progressive agenda has led to yet another decline of family values and a supported increase of poverty. Pretty work! These are what the voters turn to as the champions of the impoverished working class. It's no wonder the worst poverty in the United States is in cities where democrats have been in power for decades!
God Bless!
Capt. Bill
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