<p>collegeinusa, none of your posts indicates even a remote familiarity with the system of assistance for poor children. Which I suppose is commendable, since you have not needed to avail yourself of it; good for you. But your premises are pretty much 100% wrong.</p>
<p>Cash assistance to poor women with children is very limited, and comes with many, many strings attached involving mandatory participation in job search and training programs, and acceptance of employment. “Male kids who are impregnating these girls” ARE liable for the costs – it’s just difficult to collect from them if they don’t have jobs, or are in prison, and the fact that they have debts that far exceed their ability to pay is hardly a strong incentive for them to improve their behavior. </p>
<p>I have no idea what you think the right thing to do is: Rip children from their mothers? Let the children starve and die? Forced abortions? More prisons, and more money spent on them?</p>
<p>Or . . . why don’t we simply spend money on the one program that has been proven not to work – abstinence education? Oh, we do that! It’s mandated by law.</p>
<p>I don’t think these are easy problems, and I don’t have a simple solution. You seem to think there is a solution, but I have no idea what that is.</p>
<p>And your assumption that President Obama has some great responsibility here that he is shirking is based, as far as I can tell, entirely on his skin color. That does not reflect well on you, or make your arguments seem any stronger.</p>