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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are an older teen who has grown up in a welfare household, and you live in a neighborhood with lots of other families similar to yours, you begin to realize as you move towards adulthood, that even if you get a HS diploma, your chances of finding a job that pays enough to support you to move out is limited. Even if you find such a job, finding and paying for housing can be difficult. You want to stay close to family and friends but all he housing near them is subsidized so you can't just rent it on your own and even if you could, you want to get away from the crappy neighborhood you grew up in. But the housing that is nicer and still somewhat close is more expensive, much more so than your minimum wage job will pay. So then you think you can get 2 jobs or maybe 3 but really most almost young adults do not relish the idea of working 3 jobs.

You look around you and you talk to friends. Those with babies get housing vouchers sometimes for those real nice apartments, medical care, food, maybe school for themselves or job training, free christmas gifts, free clothes for the kids, free food bank food, all of those freebies your friends tell you free up what money you do make by babysitting or some other under the table job to pay for your hair and nails and phone and then the baby daddy will also give you money sometimes.

So as a young adult women who has grown up watching everyone in their family and everyone around them living off the system and then faces these 2 choices, which of these looks like the better option?[/quote]

This is exactly, exactly what happens.  These are teenagers making decisions on whether or not to have babies. They look at the immediate results (the housing vouchers, free medical care, etc) and make the decision based on that.

And yes, they continue to make some money in cash paying gigs and side hustles to make sure they don't need to claim it (not that it is usually even enough to put them anywhere above the levels required for assistance).

I know several women who do this.  Right down to spending the $50/week getting their hair done.

Continuing to offer free stuff isn't doing anything.  Some of the moms do really want to do the best they can for their kids - especially as they get older, IMO.  But the girls making the decisions to have 3 or 4 kids in their teens are not thinking long-term.  They're thinking of all the free stuff they'll get if they can pop out a few babies.  Not faulting them because what choice would you make?  What choice looks more inviting to a 14 year old girl?  Working two shittastic jobs or getting public assistance?[/quote]

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