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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]increase the standard of living for those who do not have the means to have or rear a child

Umm, they tried this and it was called welfare and all it did was incentivize poor women to get pregnant and have babies out of wedlock.[/quote]

No.  It didn't work because it wasn't enough then and it certainly isn't enough now.  It didn't incentivize people to have more children, but in a social context without birth control options when poor women get pregnant they are going to have children.  It also didn't incentivize people to stay home, it removed benefits from people who got jobs.  When the jobs available are poverty-level wages, you can't afford to have a job and have someone watch your kids.

All of these things work together as a system.  If we had a baseline in this country of thinking that it costs X to live with Y children, and paid A benefits to get to X when a job only pays B, we would have a different situation.  If everyone had health care and birth control available people would be able to avoid getting pregnant when they didn't want to.  Of course, in the scenario where women are just sitting around having babies, having access to affordable [i]abortions[/i] would also give women more choices, but since that's counter to the starting point of this discussion it's not worth emphasizing.[/quote]

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