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There is a wonderfully telling moment in Bradley Whitman's piece "Welfare's Lost Children." (Opinion, Sept. 30) One can almost see the hand-wave when he says that "such a policy would force many unwed mothers to give up their children to the state, but in the long run...
By an overwhelming vote of 87 to 12, the Senate approved the Republican-propelled plan to overhaul welfare--a sweeping about-face on 60 years of social policy. The bill eliminates federal guarantees of assistance to the needy and relies instead on capped block grants, mostly to be administered as...
Sadly, only the House version of the welfare reform bill even begins to deal with this growing problem. The House bill eliminates aid to unwed mothers below the age of 18 and denies additional aid to mothers who have more children while on welfare.
But even the House bill does not attack the problem of illegitimacy aggressively enough. What is really needed is a total abolition of benefits to unwed mothers under the age of 26 and the redirection of such funds toward the establishment of orphanages, a policy change that has been proposed...
At the very least, such a policy change would significantly reduce the number of out-of-wedlock births, a fact confirmed by a study done by Charles A. Murray '65. Murray's study showed that a 10 percent reduction in welfare benefits for unwed mothers would result in a corresponding...