Restore immigrant eligibility for SSI , Food Stamps, TANF, Medicaid and all other federal means-tested programs. Workfare provides good role models for children by showing them that their mothers can make a positive contribution to society. Professional experience has shown that in a country that values individual initiative and choices, children who believe that their mother may be powerless to take care of herself and her family, may become depressed, loose respect for parents, or rebel against authority. Provides women with services and supports so that they can choose from a range of homemaking and employment options suited to themselves and their children. A one-size program cannot fit all nine million children on welfare.
Welfare invites or rewards single motherhood.
Some mothers may also consider foster care or adoption to ensure their child's survival. If unchecked, this can pave the way for greater regulation all women's reproductive rights . If poor women only married, they would not be poor. Marriage is not necessarily an effective anti-poverty strategy for poor women. While two incomes clearly are better than one, the poor tend to be poor before, during, and after they tie the knot.