I think there should be better child support laws to make it easier for those single moms to support their children so they don't have to go on welfare.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People think that child-support enforcement benefits children, but it doesn't.
If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.
Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds.
Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that's the story that we're not seeing, and it's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock.
I support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way.
My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It's not worse than anybody else's life.
Our child benefit goes directly to the families who need it the most.
It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
No child should be raised in a system. A system isn't a parent. Even the system knows this, which is why the Children and Family Services Division puts so much effort into finding permanent homes for the kids who are never going to be reunited with their birth parents.
I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit.
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