Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might as well as say it up front, right at the beginning: welfare is bad, very bad. That's the confession which David Ellwood, a good liberal proponent of welfare reform, is forced to make at the outset of his blueprint for change, Poor Support: Poverty in the American Family...
...Poor Support, Ellwood outlines policy options for specific segments of the poor--the working poor with children and single mothers with families to support. And although the disabled, the elderly and people without children do not fall within the scope of the book, it is a comprehensive and analytically sound set of recommendations...
...single mothers, he advocates the same agenda of four programs, combined with a strictly-enforced system of child assistance that would provide security for poor children and more choices for their mothers. Ellwood cites damning numbers about that lack of child support currently paid in the U.S. and suggests that absent fathers be forced to accept some responsibility--by paying around 30 percent of their income for child support--for their families...
These policy proposals, which form the core of Poor Support, are rounded out by analytical discussions of the causes of poverty, both social and economic, and with some historical overview of the reasons for the current welfare morass...
...family structure conundrum. Much has been written about the break-up of the American family in the ghetto, and Ellwood argues that one of the structural problems inherent in the welfare system is that it may provide incentives for the dissolution of the nuclear family. Yet Ellwood in Poor Support is a sensitive critic, and he dismisses most of the conservative rhetoric about women "marrying" the welfare system instead of husbands...