It is quiet clear that much of the outrage against welfare recipients is other's suspicions about how women get there. It is often suggested that they are promiscuous, easy women. In addition, there is some suggestion from the conservative arena that poor mothers should have physically intrusive birth control forced upon them against their will or be forced to sign pledges of sexual abstinence. But the truth of the matter is that the birth rate for the welfare population is not any larger than the birth rate for the population as a whole.
Women come to welfare from a very wide variety of circumstances.
Please only follow links with asterisks in front of them for the time being. We know that it is the men who, by and large hire the prostitutes, and have throughout history granted themselves the right to multiple wives, harems, concubines, sexual liberty, sexual aggression, and sexual slaves. Many women are having coerced sex, and of those who are engaging in consentual sex, it is quite often in order to please or keep her partner. But, when the consequences of that sexual activity appear, it is the woman who is left to pick up the pieces. She is the target of a financial and social lynching when she steps up and takes responsibility to nurture the child that was created while she was nurturing her man.