Why Is California Penalizing Poor Women for Wanting to Be Parents?

[hamsterjill]

186. The culture of expecting help must change.

Here we go. I can see the posts now insisting that I'm some Republican troll. I assure you that I am not. But I do believe in personal responsibility. I also can see the logic that when more are on some sort of assistance than ones working and paying taxes, the mathematics alone become an issue.

I don't know the answer to your question. If I absolutely had to pick one of the choices you list, I would certainly feed the children first for as long as that could be sustained economically. But it cannot continue if there's no money to do it. I might offer the parents voluntary sterilization, but I don't see how they could be forced to be sterilized. One would think parents who are unable to feed and clothe the children they already have would not want to have more and might voluntarily be sterilized, but that's a whole other argument.

If the rich paid their fair share of taxes, then the country could afford to take care of more impoverished children, but tell me when that's going to happen! If we spent money on people instead of wars, that would help tremendously.

Society is going to have to return to there being a big and bad social stigma for bringing children into the world without the means to care for them. That won't solve all of the problem, but the existing attitude if some who simply expect government assistance has got to be curbed some how.

So let me turn the tables and ask you a question. What would you do when the money runs out?