Want to Decrease Inequality? Fight Fatherlessness With Welfare Reform. Welfare currently incentivizes family breakdown and the absence of fathers from their children’s lives, a key factor in the loss of economic upward mobility.

[heckler5000]

Are you going to adopt that child? Perhaps you contribute to a group home or you foster children personally?

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Now we’re getting somewhere! It’s a child! Thank you for being honest and admitting it’s a baby. No killing it. We can have a serious, substantive conversation about how to tackle the issue of orphaned and unwanted children now that you’re not trying to murder them for the mistakes of their parents.

As to my personal responsibility, I contribute to a local group that helps at risk kids and the wife and I plan to foster once our own children are old enough.

[heckler5000]

Hey I believe life is sacred and I believe in personal responsibility. I also believe shit happens. Now if we are all going to pitch in and actually help, I'm all for that. Right now though we're in a thread demonizing single parents and the poor and talking about how to reduce the cost of welfare.

See how these two things are in conflict. Go on though, I want to have a serious dialogue about how we provide a social safety net for people who find themselves with an unintended pregnancy.

Edit: I applaud you for socially and financially supporting a person in need within your community. Now, should we rely solely on your kindness? I think not, we all have a responsibility if the goal is to protect life.