Re:America is substantially reducing poverty among children
by nullspace on Friday September 24, 2021 @06:13PM
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> Which is driven by a welfare system that punishes married couples with lower payments
Is this true? If you're not married, then doesn't only one person get to claim the benefits? Not benefits x2?
Re:America is substantially reducing poverty among children
by tastyfreeze on Friday September 24, 2021 @07:13PM
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Single parents get more money than two parent families. Only one parent gets to apply but the payout is higher for a single parent. The system absolutely incentivizes single parent households.
Re:America is substantially reducing poverty among children
by nullspace on Saturday September 25, 2021 @08:53PM
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I think this might apply only if you are married but filing together. Not separately. Not 100 percent sure about this though, so feel free to fact check me. We’ve been doing married filing separately and my wife has been getting the full amounts afaik.
Edit: did some light googling and yeah there was nothing obvious that being single parent is better than being married, financially. So I think the above claims will need some qualification.
Re:America is substantially reducing poverty among children
by imtringued on Saturday September 25, 2021 @08:49AM
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Are you sure these families aren't simply reporting that their children are being born outside wedlock to obtain welfare?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Nonmarit...
Which is driven by a welfare system that punishes married couples with lower payments (witness the huge rise in out-of-wedlock births since the welfare schemes of the 60s/70s).
35% of African-American children live in poverty:
https://www.nccp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/wpc10-fig3.j...
Creating a subsect of society which is endlessly reliant on transfer payments to avoid poverty is not a good outcome for society. It would be better to encourage family planning and marriage.
http://marripedia.org/effects_of_out-of-wedlock_births_on_so...
"The evidence is clear and disturbing, being born outside of marriage lowers the health of newborns and increases their chances of dying; it delays children’s cognitive (especially their verbal) development; it lowers their educational achievement; it lowers their job attainment; it increases their behavior problems; it lowers their impulse control; it warps their social development; it helps change their community from being a support to being a danger to their development; and it increases the crime rate in their community.
To make the situation worse, the government has instilled powerful incentives in the welfare system which makes illegitimacy a community way of life, particularly in very poor communities. The widespread incidence of illegitimacy in turn passes on all these effects to the next generation in an even more malignant form.
While the government cannot instill virtue, it does not need to subsidize this rejection. Government policies have subsidized illegitimacy, and the evidence of its serious effects are steadily growing. Congress must adopt policies friendly to children. But to do that Congress must first become more friendly to married fathers and mothers."