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IL Republicans tried to pass a law that unwed mothers couldn't get public assistance benefits for themselves and their children unless they named their baby's (babies') father on their birth certificate so the state can try to recoup costs. Naturally, the IL Dems voted that down because it makes too much fiscal sense.
DNA testing could have been used if the father claimed it wasn't his child (children).
As I understand it, TANF requires the establishment of bio paternity as a condition for ongoing eligibility and requires states to establish paternity in 90% of the cases.
The state then pursues the bio father for child support. This can lead to DNA testing. Imagine a percentage of bio fathers have no reported income , or are untraceable or in prison.
Mothers have a cap of 5 years of TANF benefits ( not necessarily consecutive) unless they work or train for work or are in school for at least 20 hours a week.
A female rapper (sorry, can’t remember her name) mocked the whole pop-a-tot thing ten years ago. Her music video was hilarious with smiling women at the hair salon and pushing baby carriages through a sunny California neighborhood. The lyrics were crude: /All you need to do is f***, nine months later you get the big bucks/. She nailed it.
Did you ever consider that the video was perhaps being somewhat satirical for the purposes of goading people, and isn't a realistic portrayal of the motivations of single, black mothers? Alot of hip hop is about goading people based on playing on stereotypes, rather than serious reflections about peoples innermost motivations.
Poor women getting pregnant is an addiction that is taking over urban America especially. One right after another they have because they are trying to get first-class service in the safety-net ponzi scheme.
California is especially guilty of it except for San Francisco it's incredible how many babies have one right after another despite the fact they know it is expensive.
San Francisco is the only exception I have seen to the baby factory rule in California. They have babies young and often outside of San Francisco in hopes of scoring a section 8 voucher.
I notice in San Diego, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, Fresno having babies is in addiction for those who are not upper-middle class or above. Tremendous amounts of babies born to those who can't afford housing in Los Angeles, they think that by getting pregnant that the housing inventory can accomodate them and that's not the case.
I was in the El Cajon section of San Diego a few years ago and couldn't believe the amount of people with 3 to 5 kids each. Every business in that area was filled with screaming babies.
Would love to see them completely eliminate housing programs for families with children. They get a housing voucher and have more children because of the housing voucher then they invite parolee's into the home and then end up homeless and in the case of NYC in a luuxury unit.
Same thing with Koreatown, Westlake and Boyle Heights in Los Angeles I was stunned by the amount of children people have there. Why have all those children when you can't pay the going rate on rent or buy a house and need some scheme from socialist tax level city of LA.
Even with the massive fortune cities, states, federal government spends with so many poor families there is no inventory to house them. What they spend doesn't matter because the inventory is not there at all in many cities.
There just isn't the inventory anymore to house them. They tend to very concentrated in very expensive cities because very liberal, very expensive cities have massive welfare schemes so they can't really leave even though there is no inventory.
My reaction is the mothers of these 1.5 million children just had children so they could use their children for what they thought would be for front-line to a coveted section 8 voucher.
Rents are very high mostly because of welfare schemes like section 8 taking housing inventory out of the free market.
In NY there are so families, the mayor is proposing housing them in luxury apartments because that's where the few vacancies are.
As I understand it, TANF requires the establishment of bio paternity as a condition for ongoing eligibility and requires states to establish paternity in 90% of the cases.
The state then pursues the bio father for child support. This can lead to DNA testing. Imagine a percentage of bio fathers have no reported income , or are untraceable or in prison.
Mothers have a cap of 5 years of TANF benefits ( not necessarily consecutive) unless they work or train for work or are in school for at least 20 hours a week.
What's the time limit on SNAP, and other public assistance benefits for mothers and their children when the father is not named on the birth certificate?
Did you ever consider that the video was perhaps being somewhat satirical for the purposes of goading people, and isn't a realistic portrayal of the motivations of single, black mothers? Alot of hip hop is about goading people based on playing on stereotypes, rather than serious reflections about peoples innermost motivations.
Except for Chapter's specific commentary at the beginning of the video: "Public Service Announcement: This is where the taxpayer money goes."
PP does not have 2,000 clinics. It doesnt even have 1,000 (PP has only about 650 clinics, with most located in metropolitan areas where there are already public Title X clinics). And, yes, no/low-income women qualify for free or very low-cost contraceptive services, meds, and devices at Title X clinics. They don't even have to be on Medicaid to qualify. That's the entire point of the hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer Title X funding.
That study shows that in Vermont there were 11 title X sites, and after Trump's "new rules" all 11 are withdrawing. Now explain to me how birth control will be free and readily available to the residents of that state.
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