This got me thinking about single mom's. They had a choice according to the abortion supporters, they could have killed the baby and gone on with life as if nothing had happened. Instead, they kept the baby and now face a more difficult life because of their choice. Funny that not very many single mom's I have met regret the choice they made, most are the proudest mom's you could ever meet.
Single mom's are not just young unmarried women like we hear about all the time, they are divorced women, immigrant women, and married women with husbands that work away from home. Two of my son's friends are from immigrant families, one from China and one from Africa, their fathers are back in China and Africa working, so the kids see them rarely. The mom's are left with the task of raising the family without the father, and both boys are wonderful kids. They both respect their mom's, and help them with the other kids. They are not out hanging around at the mall, they are home studying.
Funny how feminists want us to kill our kids before they are born so we can work, and when we don't, they accuse us of being bad mother's because we work to support them. Bad kids are blamed on single mom's, never the absent dad.
I think we should help single mom's by paying their tuition and child care expenses if they go back to school and pass. Instead of having the welfare mom who pops out kids faster because she gets more for each kid, while she is living with a guy who works in the oil patch and earns excellent money, (yes this does happen) get them off the gravy train, with education. The welfare mom should only get more funds if she goes to school and upgrades her skills. Let her get a bonus for passing but only if she gets and holds down a job for a year.
This has been done with some success in Canada.
Description of the intervention: The Canadian Self-Sufficiency Project, administered by the provincial governments of British Columbia and New Brunswick, provided monthly cash payments (“earnings supplements”) to long-term recipients of income assistance (Canadian equivalent to U.S. welfare), contingent on their finding full-time employment and leaving the income assistance program. Canadian Self-Sufficiency Project participants had one year to find full-time employment, and thus become eligible for the supplements. Participants could receive supplements for up to three years as long as they continued to work full-time.
The earnings supplements were sizeable. As an illustrative example -- based on the experiment’s formula for determining the size of a supplement payment, a single mother in New Brunswick who worked full-time for a year and earned $20,000 would receive monthly supplements totaling $5,000 for that year.*
The program cost $5,000-$8,000 per year per welfare recipient offered an earnings supplement (the precise cost depended on the specific welfare population to which it was offered). However, as discussed below, the program's net costs to the government were much lower than this amount because the program substantially increased income tax revenues and reduced government welfare payments.
This program seemed to work....in the short term, but not in the long term. So, with some changes like education grants, it might work in the long term. It's something worth looking into.
I respect single mom's who make the decision to keep their child even though they know it will make their lives more difficult. I respect those single mom's who go back to school, or university/college, I can't imagine how hard it is for them.
Let's encourage single mom's to go back to school, and discourage those who just want to live on welfare. Forget about giving unions higher wages, and give single mom's self respect and a sense of honour for the choice they made.
