Stereotyped Thinking of an Uninformed Public
Welfare has been dismantled for the most part, because of the stereo type thinking of a public, who still refuses to see the entire picture. By Simonne Liberty.
Welfare women do NOT have babies to get the extra welfare money. This has always been a rumor that has enraged the working class. Why would anyone get so angry or jealous, and even hostile, over the extra $30. a month a women gets for having another child?
The struggle becomes harder,, and puts her deeper into poverty with every extra child she has. Like children who sneak out of the house when parents forbid them to go out, welfare women often have babies to feel that they have control of their own lives. It is the ONLY control they have ,when they have to live in the world of social slavery, under the control of an uncaring and insensitive system.
If society would understand that, maybe some compassion would allow for changes to be made, instead of crying for revenge against the least of the least, and the poorest of the poor. Our economy has tossed many working class people into the same sea of struggle that welfare moms have been swimming in for years. They are feeling the same hopelessness, and fears. Sadly suicides are escalating due to the stress, and misery that is inflicting those who never thought it would happen to them.
Stereo typed thinking can sometimes go around, and bite the person who refuses to be informed of the truths and facts. When the biased thoughts end up falling on the giver of oppression, they end up feeling the oppressions themselves. When we judge others unmercifully, we become the judged ourselves.
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Post Commentvorvisurfan
On August 10, 2009 at 11:44 am
You’re right!
ken bultman
On August 10, 2009 at 12:08 pm
In Florida the payment is much higher. The more babies you have the more money you get. It’s a way for some to survive. One baby…$350 a month…five babies…$600 a month. Plus food stamps and Women with Infant Children benefits and Medicaid and subsidized housing. You’re too liberal, Ruby.
Ramalingam
On August 10, 2009 at 12:21 pm
When I read the article, I felt as if I was in India.Your article reveals ignorant people are everywhere and US cannot be an exception.Thanks for sharing.
Karen Gross
On August 10, 2009 at 1:21 pm
I agree with everything you said, It is a very complex problem with many factors and no easy answers.
I think that there is some validity of having babies for welfare money, but mostly the problem is teen girls. They see other girls with babies who get welfare cheques and get to live by themselves – and it looks like an easy way to get independance from their parents and freedom. They are told by their parents, teachers, and even the other teen moms that having a baby and living on your own is much, much more difficult than she can ever imagine, but some just are desperate to escape their parents, or they think “I am more mature than those girls!”
I know we can’t turn back the clock of social change, but a generation ago, most babies of teens would be put up for adoption. Now they are either aborted, or kept. In Canada, the waiting list for public adoption if you want a baby, is about 10 years.
deep blue
On August 10, 2009 at 6:24 pm
It’s unfair to feel jealous to the privilege given to women for having extra babies. Unless there is an evidence that shows the baby isn’t well cared of and the money has been spent for something else, there would be no ground to complicate the issue..
deep blue
On August 10, 2009 at 6:26 pm
It\’s unfair to feel jealous to the privilege given to women for having extra babies. Unless there is an evidence that shows the baby isn\’t well cared of and the money has been spent for something else, there would be no ground to complicate the issue..
Ruby Hawk
On August 10, 2009 at 9:38 pm
I agree with Karan, I think it’s mostly girls who think it would be the way to live away from their parents. I think some women used to have babies to get welfare but now I believe they have to train for work while they draw welfare. So more babies doesn’t work anymore.I know some women desperately need the money to care for the children they have but they must also look for work. I believe there is a two year limit on welfare payments.