Yes, welfare discourages marriage.
And since a married couple invests and saves more than unmarried couples that make the same income, as well as invest more effort into the children, the breakdown of marriage is why a couple trillion dollars has done nothing to affect poverty numbers.
True; also, when children are simply birthed for freebies (rather than love or a true desire to be a parent), there is no nurturing/rearing. A friend that worked in a ghetto school district described apartments that didn’t have a single book, where the unwed mothers pushed the school to stay open regardless of blizzard conditions so they didn’t have to deal with their golden-ticket welfare bastards. They were (and are) meal-tickets, nothing else.