text: Ah, the good ol' myth of the welfare mother.\n\n1.  Women do not have children specifically to get more welfare benefits.  Welfare pays somewhere around $90 a month per child.  Counter that with the cost it takes to feed, clothe, house and provide medical care for that child.  It does not make economic sense to have a child in order to get an extra $90.  You will be spending more on that child than you are making.  \n\n2.  Welfare has not "destroyed the American family."  The divorce and single parenthood rate among welfare recipients and non-welfare recipients is comparable.\n\n3.  You are going to stop fathers from abandoning their children by...punishing the child and the mother?  How does making the child and the mother live in overcrowded conditions a la tenements make fathers more responsible for their children?\n\n4.  "A modern comfortable, private apartment."  Have you actually set foot into public housing?\n\nWouldn't a smarter thing to do be to have greater access to birth control and safe, legal abortions in poorer areas?  Poor areas usually have a dearth of clinics.  Wouldn't a smarter thing to do be have sex education that teaches folks how to avoid pregnancy and diseases in school?  Wouldn't a smarter thing to be to give incentives to two-parent families on welfare, to fathers who support their children, and penalties to fathers who do not?