Health and Welfare has a different name for them: suppliers. These are the wonderful people who ensure that families on adoption waiting lists don't wait long. Unfortunately, there are significant social costs associated with allowing the dumbest among us to continue their procreation merry-go-round.
There are two possible solutions:
1) forced sterilization. The ethical quagmire created here just gives me a headache.
2) Economic penalties. If we completely change the tax and welfare benefit structure to encourage responsible behavior, it's quite possible we may see a reduction of children born into abject poverty and dangerous home situations.
The mistake we have made, is that our public assistance increases with the number of dependents in the home. Although it is a noble idea, even the simplest among us can see how continuing to have more children than we can afford has a narcotic effect on public assistance addicts.
You should declare your children when you sign up, and then if you have children while in the program, you will lose benefits equivalent to one dependent. If you are a slow learner, you stand to lose all your benefits.
This should not affect those who find themself in a bad way, and need a hand to get back on their feet. They will understand that they need to postpone increasing their family size until that point where they can afford the associated costs.
Again we have returned to the central thesis: stupid choices have consequences and we do not help anyone by protecting them from such.
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