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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Popping out child after child with no means to support them is disgusting.  The idea that this woman might be ignorant about birth control after popping out 7 kids is ridiculous.[/quote]

Not really.  I used to work in a shelter.  A woman I was working with had six kids, and she asked me one day why men kept getting her pregnant.  And then they would leave.  I took the question to be more of a philosophical thing - why are these men ditching her, etc.  No.  She really wanted to know why she was getting pregnant.  No one had ever told her, she was highly uneducated, and clearly once you're pregnant, a doctor would assume you knew why.  In her case, she didn't, and she was too ashamed to ask anyone until somehow, she found it in her to ask me.  I certainly don't think this is the norm, but I also refuse to believe this is the only woman who didn't know.

As the posters acting like we all have so much more sympathy for welfare recipients than for six figure incomes who come up short, well obviously!!  One set has massive opportunity they're squandering.  One set has nothing but obstacles.  Once you're on welfare, it's actually quite difficult to get off. Once you hit a certain income level, which is really low, you no longer qualify.  This doesn't allow for any nest egg or any savings to get accumulated.  My "get off welfare" plan has always been to allow some double dipping for no more than XX number of years/months, whatever you choose, let them develop a nest egg and some savings, couple that with financial management classes (I had a volunteer come in to the shelter and offer checkbook balancing/financial management classes - they had never heard this stuff before) and give them a fighting chance to get off welfare.  [/quote]

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