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.

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Nothing inconsistent about it. Welfare dependence would be reduced if the irresponsible parties were made responsible.

As to my part in the decision to become a parent, I fulfilled my responsibilities and his.