Informative Essay: The Role Of Welfare In The United States

The word welfare brings a lot of things to mind. For some it has a negative connotation. A certain amount of money is automatically taken from each person’s paycheck and put towards welfare. Many people are unable to see whether that money is detrimental or beneficial those who receive it. For others, it may be a sweet relief to be getting help from the government each month. Welfare is certainly a controversial topic. No one can argue that the purpose of welfare was in any way to harm people. On the contrary, welfare was meant to aid those who did not have jobs or who did not receive enough money from their current job (Welfare Information). There are many different forms of welfare: there is health care, food stamps, child care assistance, unemployment, cash aid, and housing assistance (Welfare Information). Similarly, some of the bigger welfare programs include Medicaid, the Women, Infants, and Children Program, and Aid to Families with Dependent Children (Welfare Information). In …show more content…
These two women make a case in arguing that some teenage girls find it “financially attractive” to conceive. In other words, if they are young enough and get pregnant, they know the government will support them through welfare (Allen and Pittman). Allen and Pittman also argue that welfare has made these teenage mothers realize that marriage is no longer a necessity in order to be supported. Rather, the AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) seems to almost be encouraging teen pregnancies (Allen and Pittman)! Along those similar lines, welfare encourages these teen mothers to have more children, because the more children, the more money the government gives to support those children (Allen and Pittman). What they do not understand is that the welfare system does not provide them with enough money each month and that just pushes them further into poverty (Allen and