What's the Truth?
Research shows that there is no correlation between welfare grants and the rate of births.
Since the early 1970s, welfare benefits have fallen sharply in purchasing power while out-of-wedlock childbearing among teens and older women rose. The teen birth rate in the United States is much higher than that in other western industrialized countries having more generous welfare benefits. [Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, "The Personal Responsibility Act: An Analysis, 1995"]
A much more likely cause of pregnancy in teenage women is... the behavior of teenage and older men!
Last modified: 19 February 1997
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