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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I believe there is a court hearing today but I doubt there will be any information given it is in juvenile court.

I worked in Section 8 housing in Baltimore & DC for 20 years.  It is a falsehood that people have children just for more benefits. Please stop spreading welfare mommy conspiracy theories that Reagan tried to spread back in the 80s. There are many reasons why people on social services may have multiple children but it is naive to assume and say that it is for the money.  This also goes in line with the falsehood that if you drug tested every month people in Section 8 housing or receiving food stamps that you would catch many people on drugs and could save money by disqualifying people who test positive and only give the benefits to the drugfree people who deserve it.  These theories that are pushed and pushed over the last several decades have been debunked.  Just hard stop.

It won't solve the problem and as a society we won't get better if you keep distracting people with that kind of garbage.  [/quote]

Share your knowledge about what you think is true, then... Why do people with dysfunctional lives living on money provided by someone else's labor have multiple children then?

Unlike many folks in DCUM, I grew up poor and don't romanticize poor people.  Many of them lack basic thinking skills such as cause and effect, long term planning, impulse control, etc.  We can argue whether this is their fault, but most long term poor people in the US are not hard-working people who are exhausted by working night and day to scrape together enough money to eat.  Perhaps that is true of illegal immigrant families who technically are not allowed to receive welfare benefits (but often do).

So for me, it is easy to see why poor women cannot make the decision to put off having more children when it is so obviously in their best interest to do so.  But it doesn't mean that we should incentivize the behavior.

And tell us why you shouldn't drug test folks on welfare again?   Curious to hear your take.[/quote]

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