Re:Poverty is not a personal choice, but a reflection of soc...
by InclinedPlane on Saturday July 01, 2017 @12:26AM
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Even assuming your assumptions are correct, none of these things are entirely within a person's control. Whether or not you graduate high school can depend as much on you as on your family, school, neighborhood, etc. Unemployment exists, and is not due merely to a lack of will on the part of the potentially employed, so that doesn't make sense either. And there are ways to become a single parent which don't involve intentionally having children out of wedlock. So it looks like you're 0 for 3 there.
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Re:Poverty is not a personal choice, but a reflection of soc...
by Consultant32452 on Sunday July 02, 2017 @06:30PM
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What does the degree of control a person has over those things have to do with whether social policy should encourage behavior known to increase poverty?