Welfare reform in the United States has shifted the role of welfare agencies from distributing money to collecting itnot from taxpayers but from divorced fathers. Despite the stereotype of the deadbeat dad as a wealthy playboy squiring around his new trophy wife in a bright red Porsche, federal officials have acknowledged that most unpaid child support is uncollectible because it is owed by fathers who are as poor as or poorer than the mothers and children.
From Welfare State to Police State
By Stephen Baskerville
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article
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the Winter 2007/08 issue of The Independent Review.
Civil Liberties and Human RightsCulture and SocietyEconomyEntitlements and WelfareFamilyLaw and Liberty
Other Independent Review articles by Stephen Baskerville | |
Winter 2011/12 | Sex and the Problem of Human Rights |
Spring 2004 | Is There Really a Fatherhood Crisis? |