If we want upward mobility for the poor, they need transportation and childcare

[Badger]

I think, perhaps, that it would be better for those single mothers who were unable to look after their offspring for the state to step in, remove their children, and put them up for adoption. It would be better for both parties.

May I humbly suggest ever so lightly, that maybe--just maybe--government stepping in to make transportation and childcare more accessible to poor single moms just might be a less intrusive and more practical act than government taking their kids away to foster care?

[Badger]

Though both have contributed to the growth of single motherhood, the decline of manufacturing jobs paying at least lower-middle class wages--the loss of which made many non-college educated men essentially un-marryable--has spurred this phenomenon far more than Great Society welfare programs ever did.

[Badger]

You could solve one problem completely and put a dent in the other by putting some of the single mothers to work watching the other single mother's children.

Paid by whom? Government funding presumably? There's the rub, Dead-O.