Quote Originally Posted by Marigold2 View Post
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It is hard to argue with the evidence they cite. Nearly a third of American children are born out of wedlock, and those children are four times as likely as the others to be poor. Unwed mothers average nearly 8 years on welfare, in ^ contrast to 4.8 years overall. "From the President on down, there has been an amazing shift in attitude," says Douglas Besharov, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. "Today everyone recognizes that dealing with births out of wedlock is the central issue of welfare reform, so much so that the President's draft plan makes dealing with illegitimacy the No. 1 priority

Aw, Holy Crap! Now I am poor? Must be cause I am due 8 years of welfare checks. What could possibly be next, that I am undereducated? From a long family line of welfare recipients?

Someone should have told me sooner.