Dead. Missing. Broke. Imprisoned. Otherwise gone somewhere where it'd take much too much time and effort to track down.... time and effort that will only pay back after months in the red that just cannot be afforded when food on the table is the most important thing.
The 'Welfare Queen' meme has worn thin. It's emotive, but it's utterly empty. Actual rates of fraud in welfare systems cost far less than the mechanisms in place to minimise fraud. Welfare Queens as a rule either do not exist, or are so vanishingly rare as to be genuinely exceptional. The vast majority of people on welfare either want to work in some fashion, want to contribute, are an artist or otherwise follower of a non-standard occupation, or may genuinely feel that it is simpler better for their child's future if they don't spend 10-12 hours a day working minimum wage, or at the beck-and-call of Wal Mart which does not give a fuck about a child's schedule. Childcare costs alone - if one doesn't have a willing neighbour - can eat up most of a week's paycheck.
In which case you could argue that such welfare is an investment in the future of the child, as much as it is in the parent.
________________________________
--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?
The 'Welfare Queen' meme has worn thin. It's emotive, but it's utterly empty. Actual rates of fraud in welfare systems cost far less than the mechanisms in place to minimise fraud. Welfare Queens as a rule either do not exist, or are so vanishingly rare as to be genuinely exceptional. The vast majority of people on welfare either want to work in some fashion, want to contribute, are an artist or otherwise follower of a non-standard occupation, or may genuinely feel that it is simpler better for their child's future if they don't spend 10-12 hours a day working minimum wage, or at the beck-and-call of Wal Mart which does not give a fuck about a child's schedule. Childcare costs alone - if one doesn't have a willing neighbour - can eat up most of a week's paycheck.
In which case you could argue that such welfare is an investment in the future of the child, as much as it is in the parent.
________________________________
--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?