Thats why I included the graph of state spending, Jimmy. I know the states spend more on social programs than the federal gov't does.
Its not that people don't know where babies come from, its that they aren't aware of the risks of sex/drugs/dropping out by the time they are able to. When I was 15 years old, I thought I'd drop out of high school and work at Shaw Industries and smoke weed err' day, just like every other teenage punkass in my hometown. The difference in my life and theirs is that I had people who cared enough about me to show me thats not the way the world works.
Its awesome that you believe in stereotypes, really.
As far as the foster parents go, I don't think you quite understand what I was getting at. I was saying that the welfare is what makes it possible for people to take on foster kids. My mom took on a foster kid for a while. We didn't do it for the money (because this particular kid was family) but without the money and the medicaid we wouldn't have been able to, and the kid would have been a ward of the state. I imagine this is true for a lot of kids in the system, welfare keeps them in family homes instead of the state operated group homes.
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