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LeftyMom

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18. It doesn't though.

Thu Oct 2, 2014, 11:56 PM

Oct 2014

Housing assistance still takes years and years to get, if the waiting list is even taking names. Cash aid is still far less than it would take to pay for even the cheapest apartment in the worst neighborhood (though TANF for two is a bit more generous than GA for one- about $500 instead of about $300.) You're still fucked if you make any effort to make outside money and double fucked if you don't. Only now you have the CPS sword of Damocles hanging over your head if anybody decides that your poverty is neglect (and the vast majority of CPS complaints are for neglect.) And if you fall into homelessness you are likely to lose your child to that system (and have fewer options in terms of car, friends' couches, etc.)

So yeah, you're still basing your argument on an entirely incorrect assumption. The system fucks over parents every bit as much, if not more.

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"A Social Worker Advised Me to Have a Baby if I Wanted Public Money" [View all] daredtowork Oct 2014 OP

I was barely 18 when my son was born... Wait Wut Oct 2014 #1

Social Worker is kind of a contradiction in terms daredtowork Oct 2014 #3

probably there's a lot of pressure to reduce budget redruddyred Oct 2014 #25

Yep daredtowork Oct 2014 #33

pretty much. redruddyred Oct 2014 #34

Those are not Social Workers. DeadLetterOffice Oct 2014 #29

I've considered getting pregnant to get help IVoteDFL Oct 2014 #2

It's not brilliant but daredtowork Oct 2014 #4

Wait! The GOP could find a way to destroy welfare Stargazer99 Oct 2014 #5

This is my point daredtowork Oct 2014 #13

reward childbirth with various perks? Trillo Oct 2014 #6

Ahhh....but we criticized the Chinese for the one-child policy. On the other hand, some religious kelliekat44 Oct 2014 #8

I agree that the GOP schizophrenia on the issue has a lot to do with race daredtowork Oct 2014 #15

Whether it makes sense or not daredtowork Oct 2014 #10

I'll give that a resounding 'NO'. redruddyred Oct 2014 #26

That is a sad article BuelahWitch Oct 2014 #7

Her story could be told over and over. daredtowork Oct 2014 #11

I was informed by a couchsurfer redruddyred Oct 2014 #27

The term here is "benefit scrounger" Prophet 451 Oct 2014 #9

The scrounging occurs because people need it daredtowork Oct 2014 #12

Preaching to the choir, dude Prophet 451 Oct 2014 #23

the contempt is magnified by ignorance daredtowork Oct 2014 #24

Nothing you said about women and children is actually true. LeftyMom Oct 2014 #14

Hmm you mistake my purpose I think daredtowork Oct 2014 #16

It doesn't though. LeftyMom Oct 2014 #18

I understand about housing assistance daredtowork Oct 2014 #21

I have to take a little issue with this. The women aren't encouraged to have a child because of GOP hughee99 Oct 2014 #17

Welfare Reform daredtowork Oct 2014 #19

The title quote is from 25 years ago. Just want to make sure any skimmers catch that. nt LeftyMom Oct 2014 #20

I was told the exact same thing a month ago. daredtowork Oct 2014 #22

For people who insist that a woman's only real goal in life should be to produce babies, they sure kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #28

home truth.nt daredtowork Oct 2014 #31

Pah, small potatoes. As social worker advised ME to design a trillion dollar jet fighter that Warren DeMontague Oct 2014 #30

LOL! nt daredtowork Oct 2014 #32