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03/04/12(Sun)06:58 No.1945948female privilege
http://www.brookings.edu/articles/2006/0819welfare_haskins.aspx
"because
more than 80 percent of low-income, single-parent families, both those
on and off welfare, are headed by mothers, the beneficial outcomes of
the welfare law have accrued primarily to mothers and children.
Meanwhile, the major favor the welfare law did for fathers was to pursue
them ever more relentlessly for child-support payments. In fact, the
law may have intensified the already substantial problems faced by poor
fathers.
...
Men generally do not qualify for cash
welfare, child care, or Medicaid, and they qualify for an EITC that is
worth only a tenth as much as the mothers' EITC. The only major benefit
for which they qualify is food stamps—to go along with continual
pressure from child support and, for many, incarceration. Thus, the
carrots are missing." |