The Patriot Post® · Culture's Impact on Welfare Nation

Terence Jeffrey: “The Census Bureau reported in a study released this week that 65 percent of American children lived in households taking aid from one or more federal program as of the fall of 2011. ‘Almost two-thirds (65 percent) of children,’ said the Census Bureau, ‘lived in households that participated in at least one or more of the following government aid programs: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), Medicaid, and the National School Lunch Program.’ How to be dependent on government is now one of the earliest life lessons America is teaching nearly a supermajority of children. … [O]nly 59.8 percent of children whose parents were both born in the United States lived with two married parents. The ultimate struggle for the future of America is not political or economic, but cultural. It is between those who believe in self-reliance and traditional family life and those who do not.”