[conservatism_IS_compassion]

If dad is a deadbeat who doesn’t want to support his own kid, you don’t want him around. Welfare moms figure that out pretty quickly. He’s just an interference. That government check comes a lot more regularly.

. . . and what does that mean about the government check? It means that, to the extent that the guy who becomes a "deadbeat dad" wants a long-term relationship with his girlfriend who becomes the "nondeadbeat mother," the government is a serious competitor. As far as he is concerned, the government is the problem.

Let's not be so cavalier about poor men's problems. Because their sons are the next generation of the same syndrome - you cannot actually help a boy by any device which assures that he does not grow up respecting his father.

[AppyPappy]

I’m not seeing a whole big pile of unmarried men stepping up to be the dad of their kids these days. I’m seeing a lot more “baby daddies”.