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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many people want to be self-reliant - even if they aren't now.  They have an optimistic outlook and don't want the government putting them the a box that is reliance on government.  Many that rely on the state for food stamps, housing and other benefits find themselves in a vicious circle where it is too hard to jump from poor to middle class because they will lose their benefits in the interim.

The Great Society has been an ongoing failure and has trapped many in a cycle of poverty. These people have to rely on government largess to survive and the system makes it very difficult to escape.  We also seem to have failed to have done much about teen pregnancy and especially out-of-wedlock births which are a huge part of the problem.  Single motherhood  is no longer stigmatized and is more of the norm now. Single Moms have learned how to game the welfare system by keeping the Dads out of the picture, while in fact they are doing themselves a disservice.

Poor whites are as much of the problem as anyone else and I have no idea why they sometimes vote conservative, but it doesn't really matter - there is no party that is looking to change the system and no clamor for people to change this self-destructive behavior.

It's all very sad. [/quote]

The Pew Research Center, citing a number of studies, reports the birth rate among teenagers in the United States is at an historic low — since 2007, it's fallen 42 percent across all racial and social demographics. And while the Pew numbers reflect live birth data, and don't include teens who became pregnant but who had an abortion, a rise in abortions doesn't seem to have played a role. The Guttmacher Institute reported that teen abortion rates are at their lowest point since abortion became legal, and they have remained constant since 2007.[/quote]

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