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Imagine a stranger coming up to you and demanding to use your credit card to finance a weekend fling. Any rational person would refuse. Now imagine that the stranger's good time showed up on your credit card bill anyway, and your credit card company insisted that not only did you have to pay but that the money would come directly out of your paycheck.

That pretty much sums up the Government, at all levels, although the Federals are the most glaring example.

One mechanism for reducing those costs is already in place. All that is required is the legislative will to mandate that an absent parent contribute to a child's upkeep through the same sort of automatic withholding already enforced on everybody else to subsidize that parent's child.

Normally, I agree with the Republican-American's editorials, but exactly why must more government be the solution to this problem?

The easiest way to deal with single mothers is to reduce or outright restrict public benefits to those who have legitimate need (e.g., the husband died very suddenly). And, as one other poster mentioned, restrict the availability of birthright U.S. citizenship, although I would not go so far as to require a U.S. citizen parent. (Permanent resident parents are okay, too.) Last, restrict abortions to only those in the first trimester that are needed to save the life of the mother or in cases of rape or incest. In other words, no more abortion on demand.

As yet another poster mentioned in post 37, accountability is a good thing.