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Safety net fails grandmother caregivers living in severe poverty
Science Daily ^ | December 17, 2015 | University of Washington

Posted on 12/17/2015 1:19:08 PM PST by sparklite2

Pittman's paper highlights the strategies grandmothers devised to keep grandchildren in their care without jeopardizing subsidized housing, such as keeping children's names off leases to avoid being disqualified for senior housing. In some cases, grandmothers were not getting benefits available to them or were jumping through unnecessary hoops to access services because they were misinformed.

In most situations, parents either failed or refused to contribute financially to their children's care. In one case, a daughter left her mother to care for her 2-year-old daughter without transferring the child's public assistance payments -- leaving her mother without any formal support or income. And in some cases, parents removed or tried to remove their children from a grandmother's care to get subsidized housing or resources the child was eligible for.

Child care was another challenge. One grandmother quit her job because she couldn't find child care and had to rely on unemployment income and help from friends. Another was prevented from seeking a job because she couldn't afford child care. She couldn't get subsidized care, since she wasn't her grandchild's public assistance payee, and transferring those payments might have jeopardized the child's safety if her mother took her back to claim the benefits.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: entitlementculture
Hey, hey, LBJ, here's your Great Societay!
1 posted on 12/17/2015 1:19:08 PM PST by sparklite2
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To: sparklite2

Any who trusts in the US Government to provide for them will be severely disappointed.


2 posted on 12/17/2015 1:22:14 PM PST by PGR88
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To: PGR88

Disappointed in the quality of their Obamaphone, their subsidized housing, their spend-anywhere EBT cards?


3 posted on 12/17/2015 1:24:58 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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To: sparklite2

Sounds like the grandparent’s own children failed them.Dump the child but keep the child’s benefits.Somebody needs to go to jail.


4 posted on 12/17/2015 1:25:18 PM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: sparklite2

Hey, hey, LBJ, here’s your Great Societay!

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Yep. Now down to 4 and 5 generations of this cycle of poverty.

Johnson declared war on poverty. But guess what? Poverty won. Especially when it was designed by the State to win.


5 posted on 12/17/2015 1:26:19 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: sparklite2

In a Republican administration, this would be touted as cruel.

In a Democratic administration: ignorance.

This is why the media is hated.


6 posted on 12/17/2015 1:27:25 PM PST by cicero2k
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To: sparklite2

Our government pays people to make poor choices.


7 posted on 12/17/2015 1:28:11 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: Farmer Dean
Thanks for your reality to a sob story cooked up to steer more taxes to this mess.

Sounds like the grandparents own children failed them. Dump the child but keep the child benefits.Somebody needs to go to jail.

8 posted on 12/17/2015 1:32:56 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Trump is making so much money for the media they’re learning to love capitalism!! (jimrob))
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To: sparklite2

They did such a great job with their kids, that now they get to eff up the next generation!


9 posted on 12/17/2015 1:35:18 PM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: goodwithagun

what would you do?


10 posted on 12/17/2015 1:38:07 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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To: sparklite2

These sluts sleep around and the babies born to drugged up women often have multiple problems. The grandmothers who failed at rearing their daughters are now in charge of the babies she pops out for her welfare checks. Grandma doesn’t get the payments but the slut and her boyfriends cash the checks. LBJ should be roasting in Hell for bringing such degradation to the Black race while buying their votes by giving them Free Stuff paid for with taxpayer money.


11 posted on 12/17/2015 1:41:30 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: sparklite2

For people that get free housing, free medical care, free schooling, free ebt for groceries, free cars, free phones and so on and so on.. they are always complaining and trying to get more.


12 posted on 12/17/2015 1:46:18 PM PST by Trillian
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To: sparklite2

Perhaps I’m jaded: I teach in an urban high school. My students are third generation welfare and they are currently producing the fourth generation.


13 posted on 12/17/2015 2:06:12 PM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: goodwithagun

God bless you.

And keep you safe.


14 posted on 12/17/2015 2:07:11 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: sparklite2

forced sterilization and drug test the bastards


15 posted on 12/17/2015 2:41:44 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: sparklite2

Science Daily?


16 posted on 12/17/2015 3:05:42 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Obama = ISIS Fanboy)
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To: sparklite2
I know a family where the grandparents are taking care of the kids and another one where a great grandparent has assumed this job. In neither case does the the Great Society enter into it in a direct way. In neither case does it seem to me that the grandparents are at fault. They are doing a fine job raising the youngest generation. The problem is that drugs have so seized the minds of the parents that they cared more for the drugs than their own children.

You could say that it is the fault of parents when their kids try addictive drugs. But then you would have to also say that it was the parents fault that some kids over a hundred years ago grew up to be alcoholics.

17 posted on 12/17/2015 3:10:23 PM PST by wideminded
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To: combat_boots

Many thanks. That really means a lot.


18 posted on 12/17/2015 3:14:28 PM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: Farmer Dean

When you pay women to have children, you get unwanted children.


19 posted on 12/17/2015 3:17:03 PM PST by sportutegrl
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To: wideminded

It should be looked at as individual cases, but that would make the job way to hard for our government paid Socialist Workers.

We have not only failed our own USA born children and families, we are now inviting foreign children to break our immigration laws, and come here illegally to be used as pawns in the government paid Socialist Workers programs.

Because compassion...SMH.


20 posted on 12/17/2015 5:22:48 PM PST by sarasmom (TRUMP-Because there is no option to vote NONE OF THE ABOVE for the rest of them!)
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