SOC214H1 Lecture Notes - Herbert Gutman, Nuclear Family, These Girls
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Today in the states you have to be job-trained to get welfare and you can only get it for 5 years in your lifetime. Welfare is difficult especially for single mothers because they have to work and care for their children. It was easy to get welfare back then; you just have to show your debts and you ll get it. There has been higher proportions of lone-parent families (majority is single mothers) Higher proportions of babies born outside marriage (before getting married) Since 1940s there has been lower proportions of people marrying. When researchers only look at middle-income and upper-income black americans and compare them with other white americans, there is no difference. This pattern no longer exists (swapping families) Daniel patrick moynihan, the culture of poverty argument: a pathological family pattern, characterized by unstable marriages, an absence of fathers, high rates of. Woman-headed households, and high rates of birth outside marriage cause poverty.
