Unless you address the abuse of the welfare system, all that effectively accomplishes is putting a disproportionate economic burden on productive single men that are not part of the problem to begin with, because they are not the men that these single moms are getting knocked up by.
And the productive single men have little reason to marry tax credits or not, when in practice a woman can renege on the marriage contract and take half or more of the commingled assets despite whether or not she actually contributed a proportionate amount thereof.
Basically society needs to both stop rewarding people for bad decision making and also stop reassigning the consequences of such to others.
Only doing one or the other is not going to fix the issue.
Unless you address the abuse of the welfare system, all that effectively accomplishes is putting a disproportionate economic burden on productive single men that are not part of the problem to begin with, because they are not the men that these single moms are getting knocked up by.
And the productive single men have little reason to marry tax credits or not, when in practice a woman can renege on the marriage contract and take half or more of the commingled assets despite whether or not she actually contributed a proportionate amount thereof.
Basically society needs to both stop rewarding people for bad decision making and also stop reassigning the consequences of such to others.
Only doing one or the other is not going to fix the issue.
Agreed; welfare reform is a fantastic idea.