GuessTheAltAccount wrote:Jello Biafra wrote:The prevalence of single motherhood by state in the United States does not strongly correlate with the states that give more generous welfare. For the most part, it is just the opposite - the higher rates of single motherhood are in states with less generous welfare programs.
I'm just wondering why people need comparisons by state at all when comparison to Nordic countries as a whole makes the point far more clearly. Theoretically if you denied poor women who wanted kids welfare they could get themselves pregnant off rich men instead of ordinary men; if anything poverty might make them desperate enough to be more likely to resort to that than less; it's not like an ordinary man can provide as much in marriage as a rich man can provide through child support bills. If anything that's a loophole in prostitution law. (Not that I think prostitution should be illegal anyway.)
What in the holy even is this for an argument?
