[SauronOfMordor]

But for single mothers supporting a family, options are limited. Remember the Welfare-To-Work program? For women to get off of welfare and work a job, someone has to watch the kids. These women are caught in a Catch-22.

Correction: these women have, for the most part, chosen to put themselves in a Catch-22

[Thoeting]

Yes, you are correct. Many times they make a conscious decision to have a child out of wedlock. Obviously, this is not true in every case, but it is true in enough cases that it becomes the stereotype.

But the mothers are required to come off welfare. The kids have to go somewhere so the moms can work.

Again, a catch-22 in which the child pays the price of the mother's foolishness.

This is one of the reasons I encourage my girls to date guys from intact families so that there is the expectation from both sides that marriage is a bond that we don't walk away from when things get hard. Note I said encourage, not require. Teens can be squirrely enough to go against mom and dad just for the thrill of the unknown.