Increased federal spending? Borrow more from China so that the poor may have daycare? By increasing the dependency, the poor will magically "break the cycle of dependence upon government aid"?

Should You Outsource Parenting?

I would suggest people not have children unless they're financially able to provide for them, but I'd be called a racist/sexist for it.

"A solid investment in quality child care services today can help future adults break the cycle of dependence upon government aid."If it were only that simple.73% of black children born to single mothers.53% of hispanic children born to single mothers.Children born to single mothers 5 times more likely to live in poverty.What this editorial doesn't tell you is many children of non-working single mothers go to subsidized daycare and headstart.Why is that?I would think if we can force religious organizations to pay for their employees birth-control (code word for abortions) we should be able to require birth-control implants for individuals seeking entitlements to raise their children. Michelle Obama's influence in the black community would have been better spent encouraging personal responsibity and use of birth-control for black girls and women instead of fat kids.Help these single mothers develope child care co-ops and learn to take care of their own problems like most other people have to.

Well you have said it just the way it should be Thank You for educating the uninformed. This is one area I have always said needs a helping hand. I would much rather see my tax $$'s going to a struggling working family than deadbeat losers looking for handouts.

Why not just sterilize all the people on welfare or all those who have different views from those more fortunate.They are predisposed to be lazy and are obviously mentally deficient. While we're at it let's put them all in concentration camps so we can keep an eye on them. Give them six months to get a job and if they fail gas them. Never mind that some of them are rocket scientists caught in the crunch Our society would be better off without these deadbeats! Sound familiar? Some people are so shortsighted and selfish they subscribe to this "superior race" theory. They shout from the mountain top that they raised themselves up by their own boot straps forgetting that if you don't have boots you don't have the straps.No one one earth got where they are today without some kind of assistance from others, whether relatives or friends or public assistance. Our problem is that when some of us get ahead we tend to forget where we began and get arrogant, and yes greedy.

Their tune changes when their lives take a change for the worse and are given the opportunity to view the situation from the other side of the fence. When we have the arrogance to think,"it can't happen to me, I' will never need assistance we sometimes are brought down to reality. Hope it doesn't happen to me.

What do educated people do? They have fewer children. What would less educated people do if they knew no one would pay them to have extra children? Have fewer children.

If you ever hear a group of young mothers, some of them illegal aliens, discussing the planning of their large families, the discussion begins with welfare assistance. They plan these children by making budgets that include welfare. I don't mean every mother, or families that lose jobs due to no fault of their own. But we have a huge problem with those who deliberately milk the system and have more children than the self-supporting taxpayers who are being drained to pay for these people. How many working folks who are in a bind would be much better off it they could keep hundreds more each month of their own paychecks?

Nice to know you are so closely associated with with these young mothers that you are privy to their conversations. Do you have children and if so, when you had them could you afford them? Did you plan your budget before you had them like a responsible person would do? If not do you love them as much as if you had planned them like Family Planning instructs, M.?