Teenaged girls are incentivized to be a baby's momma in their teens to get their welfare checks -- which our government is very happy to hand out. Their families are destroyed because they don't want to get married....it'll effect their payday. The males are left without a family structure, goals and ambitions.
I am honestly having a hard time following this... You think the promise of welfare is the cause of teen pregnancy? I don't understand why somebody would logically forgo going to college and potentially earn 80,000 and up, just to live on welfare. I don't think many teens plan to get pregnant either.
Males don't have goals or ambitions if they are not married to the baby momma?
I don't know much about welfare either, but I thought married couples would get more.. because that is one more family member that is applying for gov assistance.
Job opportunities in these blighted neighborhoods are nonexistent. National food chains? They don't even open stores in these neighborhoods. Some have to drive 10-15 miles to get a "real grocery store."
I tend to believe that the best jobs are found in areas where the population are highly educated and professional working people.. Seattle, NYC, Atlanta, etc. I think the government has a strong role to play in education, it will benefit the country in the long term. People will be smarter, more productive, innovators, business savvy, and the GDP should start to rise.
Their schools are a shambles with cops patrolling the hallways, metal detectors at the doors. Gangs in complete control. Their test scores are abysmal -- and still we don't solve THAT problem.
It's not the governments role to try and fix everything.. the gov can't. I do believe that individual people are better equipped to help these communities than the government. Throwing money at a problem doesn't fix it. It will require somebody who really values a better community to change it..
The only thing government should do in these cases, is to help provide access to quality education and university for these people. But it will take members in the community to lead them to the water. The government can't even do that..
Is there anything you plan on doing to help this?
People need to stop waiting for the government to fix it, and fix it themselves... If you want to fix it, do something.