Government Destroys Marriages by Giving Welfare - Thomas Sowell #short

Government Destroys Marriages by Giving Welfare - Thomas Sowell #shorts
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[jeremykraenzlein]

I have heard this described as the oldest law of economics:

If you tax anything, the free market will produce less of it. If you subsidize anything, the free market will produce more of it.

Let's stop subsidizing fatherlessness.

[MarasD]

Yep. Paying women to have kids and keep the fathers out of the homes is making sure they grow up in poverty.

[wcstrawberryfields]

Single parent homes are slowly unfolding disasters for all involved.

[ddale]

Simple logic! People want to be taken care of, but not told what to do. Can’t have it both ways.

[magsmcgarrigle]

He’s so right. I got married at 21 and a lot of old school friends already had kids and left the fathers. Of course the same system was in play here at that time. Paying people to stay in a single parent family and make them poor if they stay together. This plan has been brewing the last 40 years. There’s plenty more examples of their doings but I don’t have time. I gotta go. Trump✊

[UberGringo]

I just heard there are a bunch of hottie single moms in Iceland!

[patrickplagwitz]

Iceland has the lowest povertyrate of all oecd countries. The USA is second worst.

[patrickplagwitz]

Stop comparing apples with pines! "Of the children of unmarried mothers, 74% were born to mothers in registered cohabitation and 26% to noncohabiting mothers. Hence, in 2015, 18% of all children were born to mothers that were neither married nor cohabiting (Statistics Iceland, n.d.a).1 There were 80, 683 families2 in Iceland as of 1 January 2017, and 56% of these were couples with children under 18 years of age. Of all families with children, 49% were married couples, 23% cohabiting couples, 3% single fathers and 25% single mothers (Statistics Iceland, n.d.a)."Guðný Björk Eydal: Policies and practices for single parents in Iceland. The Triple Bind of Single-Parent Families
Resources, Employment and Policies to Improve Wellbeing
Edited by Rense Nieuwenhuis and Laurie C. Maldonado, 2018.

[michelluccote]

Some of this seems off. In Iceland it looks like 70% of couples don’t get married but they are not single parent homes. Anyone know the actual rate of single parent homes there?