the U.S. Census Bureau list the poverty rate for black and Hispanics roughly equal, yet there is a 2X difference in single-parent families, so there must be more to it
so having kids before getting an education with no dad around so those kids are most like going to do the same and the government effectively subsidizing doing it going to make less or more people poor?
I get it is all well meaning and kids shouldn't suffer for their parents bad choices, but is it making it worse?
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US welfare payments are inadequate. Scandinavian welfare payments are gener ous enough that the children of single mothers do a lot better than their U S equivalents. The US may be subsidising the kids, but not as much as they ought to be if they want them to grow up into potentially productive employ ees.
bad choices, but is it making it worse?
Scandinavia spends more money on the children of single mothers, and the ch ildren do seem to do better there, and are correspondingly less likely to b e seduced into single motherhood when they grow up - they do tend to have m ore options, as you might have noticed in your immediate environment.
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Lasse Langwadt Christensen does seem to live in Denmark, which - like the other Scandinavian countries - does seem to manage welfare a lot better than the US and better than places like Canada, Australia and the UK.
does argue, fairly convincingly, that they are better places to live.
Paradise is a place you go after you are dead, and since I'm sceptical about any kind of existence after death, I've probably not got rights on any kind of Paradise.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
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