What is the government's responsibility in providing for mothers?
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What is the government's responsibility in providing for mothers?
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I think that we can (probably? mostly?) agree that the government has some responsibility to provide emergency aid, including financial support, to women in crisis pregnancies. In your opinion, how far does this aid need to go?
Should financial aid be temporary to give her a chance to get on her feet and find a job and childcare, last till the child is 18, or cut off at some point between those extremes? Does she have any responsibility to work herself, or can she choose to be a stay-at-home mom and live completely on public assistance? If she should have the option to stay home, is that fair to other low-income families who actually have to work to support their kids, and whose taxes support the mother who chooses not to work? Should money be used to provide permanent sole support for families where the mother chooses not to work outside the home, even if it means cutting funding to programs like public schools and healthcare for the elderly?
Also, does the government have the responsibility to provide the same level of funding and assistance to a woman with her seventh or eighth crisis pregnancy, as it would to her first or second? Do women have the right to parenting assistance for as many children as they want and can produce biologically, or do they also have some responsibility in family planning, and birthing only as many children as they can support? How much burden for how many children a woman wants should fall on the taxpayers? Does a woman have the absolute right to as many children as she desires, even if she can't actually afford to take care of them?
I'm not suggesting AT ALL that women should not (within reason) receive financial assistance with crisis pregnancies; I think they absolutely should. But the government has finite resources and can't provide everything its citizens might decide they need or want, so there has to be a line drawn somewhere with any kind of assistance. When it comes to financial support for mothers, where would you personally draw that line?
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For those who are confused... this is a hypothetical question. I'm not pregnant. I'm not going to become pregnant. I don't receive any kind of government assistance, and would have no reason to do so.
General question. Not MY personal situation.
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yeahright
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They aren't responsible for providing for mothers. My tax dollars are responsible for helping mothers provide for themselves. That means help with job skills, parenting skills, help for getting due child support, child care resources, etc.
The only long term gov assistance I do agree with is assistance for the children like healthcare, food/nutrition programs because it is about the kids. |
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Independ"ant"
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I think until the gov't comes up with ways to force men to financially and emotionally support their children they should step up. Welfare today is lacking to say the least....it helps women get by but thats about it.
Almost all people on welfare do not have a litter of kids.
For those that do.....obviously there is something going on psychologically and it should be addressed. |
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K M
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"When it comes to financial support for mothers, where would you personally draw that line?"
With preventative/ contraception assistance. After that, it's was her choice to become pg and she should be responsible for the baby. |
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beckyn3kids
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"money is not printed from a magical printer" "I am not responsible for your kid" WOW. Some people are just angry all the time. While I agree that it is no one's job to support another I don't believe this is always the case yes, there are many many people who abuse the system. But taken on a case by case basis there are also people who really need the step up EXAMPLE: I was raised by an alchoholic drug addicted mother and a convicted murderer father. My only sibling has spent much of his life in prison. I chose not to follow this lifestyle and left home at 18. 1 baby already in tow. Luckily I met an awesome man with a great job. We lived comfortably for 4 years. 2 more children followed. We took parenting classes as I really didnt know what it meant to be a parent. He worked, I went to college earning a 4.0 GPA. Then things went sour. (I had my tubes tied at 3rd child) He lost his job with the closing of a plant and now works a low wage job. I stopped going to school when our youngest was diagnosed with autism me staying home to care for my child who needs me is the most important job I could have. I do not lie to our case worker as many people i know do. We get assistance with food and medical bills no daycare no cash In fact the state does not even help us with daycare for our daughter so our son can go to his therepy I do it all myself from home. We don't own a car, we dont have cable we have a bundled home phone and plain old dial up internet at a combined bill of 50 a month. But i use my computer to stay up to date for when i return to school. What else would you do in a situation like that? |
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Gaia Raain II
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For me, it's got nothing to do with government. Why are we so removed from each other that we have to rely on a faceless entity to provide the support that has historically been provided by family, community, loved ones? Now that we've gotten to the point where we're so disconnected from our neighbors that we don't even know their names, THAT's the problem we need to fix.
In the meantime, every person should have the right to a loving family, preferably the one they're related to. If we must rely on the government to provide that assistance, so be it. The government should provide it.
If a woman is having troubles, we should all be lifting her up, not sending her child away as punishment. Many hands make light work. Why can we all not chip in just a little to help those in need? It really would take so very little out of our lives if we ALL gave of ourselves to help those who need it. But because so few are doing the helping, it makes for a heavier burden on the helpers. Eventually, the overburdened "helpers" feel overwhelmed and resentful and start pawning off the helping onto others.
Why have we as a society allowed it to get to this point? Talk to your neighbors, get involved in your community, find out what you can do to help. If each of us spent five minutes a week, or five bucks a week, or both, we could do so much to minimize the great burdens on our fellow humans. |
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Not Adopted
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There is no reason for an 8th or 9th crisis pregnancy. If contraception is made readily available and we stop promoting the fallacy of "abstinence only," far fewer crisis pregancies will occur. |
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Sofa King
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No, I'm not responsible for your kid... and neither is anybody else but the two of you. What the government gives out is our tax dollars that we had to work for, not free money from a magic printer. |
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PEABUS
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SORRY,I SMELL FREE RIDE HERE.SOUNDS LIKE AN UNPLANNED BABY AND NOW YOU WANT EVERYONE ELSE TO PAY FOR YOUR ACTIONS. WHERE THE HELL IS DADDY? IF YOU CANT FEED THEM, DONT BREED THEM. |
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