“Because welfare enabled women to have kids without any need for an employed husband.”
To make matters worse, the system was set up to ENCOURAGE having MORE fatherless kids. All that was needed was the occasional volunteer sperm donor; of which there are ample.
In the 70’s, when I was working in a lower socioeconomic area of Chicago, the male Welfare officers (rumor) were impregnating women so they could get more welfare. Now, that was a rumor, but the welfare Queen in that area had several children and kept having more. Generous welfare has done extensive damage to minority families. Yes, no father around is devastating.