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You keep saying "more support". What exactly do you want? We already have WIC, food stamps, Head Start, etc. There are millions of single moms out there, far more than in previous decades. Some of these mothers are using the resources I just listed, and some have sufficient financial means to support themselves. That seems to indicate that there are plenty of women who feel that raising the child themselves is a viable option.

But we can just leave open a blank check. I have a responsibility to myself, my family, and the society. That means I utilize the resources that are available to me (roads, public schools, etc.) but that doesn't mean I get whatever I want, just because I want it. I live a comfortable middle class lifestyle. I would not be able to do that if I decided to have 8 kids, so I don't. [/quote]

Not the PP, but I would say:

1. Long-term paid parental leave (say, 12 months after a child is born)
2. High-quality, affordable child care until kids are school age
3. Accessible, affordable mental health care, including better options to treat substance abuse & addiction

Those three things would probably go a long way toward enabling women in precarious situations to parent their kids. As an added benefit, they would help a TON of people who aren't pregnant or poor or even female.[/quote]

For that to work with the population the US has would entail a disproportionate amount of taxes and a great deal of big government intervention. There are smaller countries and socialist countries like that, if you'd like to live there.[/quote]

I'd be thrilled if our government put less money into war and business and more into the American family. No change of tax rate needed.[/quote]

I'd rather the government have a little to do with the personal lives of their citizens as possible. Do you really want the government decided what the American family is, how it should look, what resources it should have? Because that is exactly what would happen.[/quote]

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