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I'm sorry, but I've seen this welfare reform up close and it works, it really works.

I know a young girl who got pregnant before graduating from high school and tried to put the baby up for adoption, but the young man refused to give permission.
She finished school and had the baby on welfare. After the baby was born she entered the pre-work program where they gave her child care instruction as well as career counselling. They even helped her find a job. She has been working now for over a year and is off of welfare, except a day care subsidy. She is now building one those self=help houses which will be finished in December. She is only 21.

This girl had some real obstacles to overcome in her homelife and would have been no where if she hadn't gotten into the welfare system, by getting pregnant.

I'm sorry, but I've seen this welfare reform up close and it works, it really works

There needs to be much more welfare reform --- and more serious reform. In this area about 40% of babies are born to single young mothers and it's not unusual to see high school girls with 2 or 3 babies, they're in school because it gives them free breakfast, lunch, and free daycare but most have no goals except to try and get another "boyfriend".

Heck, my wife and I helped pay for the college education of three of our four children. It took them years after college - while paying off college loans - before they could afford their own home. I'd say the welfare system worked very well for this 21 year old single mom.