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TIME: You've left it to the states to decide whether to impose a "family cap," limiting benefits for mothers who have more children while on welfare. Critics say it will deprive mothers of the money to buy basic necessities...
...benefits a year, and are the least likely to climb out of poverty, he has made teen-pregnancy prevention a pillar of his program. He has invited states to cut off additional payments to women who have children while on the dole, a hotly controversial measure dubbed the "family cap...
...cycle of dependency that has destroyed so many families. To liberals, such a policy is cruel and racist, and it punishes children for their parents' behavior. When the Philadelphia Inquirer ran an editorial suggesting that women on welfare be implanted with the contraceptive Norplant -- a sort of chemical family cap -- the newspaper was fiercely attacked, even by some of its own staffers, for advocating genocide. "Who will put the limit on the number of kids a family should have?" asks Buffy Boesen, a Denver community organizer. "In China the government does it. Is that the way we're going...
...when it comes to correcting all the other damaging incentives of the welfare system, the arguments break out. The hottest topic at the moment is the family cap. Already in New Jersey, Arkansas and Georgia, families receive no increase for children born while on the dole, and Clinton's plan would allow other states to follow suit. Since the average increase of about $67 is much less than the cost of raising another child, welfare mothers didn't really have much economic incentive to have more kids. But this above all is a symbolic issue, a chance for the government...
...were cute." She and Hope share a house and their welfare checks, but Delores is relentless about breaking the cycle. "I don't say, 'If you finish school . . .' It's always, 'You will finish school, and then you will go to college." Delores is a supporter of the family cap. "If you get pregnant and have another child, it's like you're getting paid to have kids," she says...