The Welfare System

The Welfare System

The “Welfare System” is a federal welfare funding program that provides the most considerable amount of financial support not only to children nationwide, but it also provides an increasing amount of money to single mothers, father, couples and their families. The welfare system has changed from not only helping the needs of widows and their children but not mostly providing assistance for immense amount of young, single mothers. It is not only significant to look at the role that the AFDC programs play in promoting the dissection of parents, but also taking into consideration the impact that the social stigma that welfare carries and has on the aptitude of mothers to get off system and move towards a more self-sufficiency life style.   The welfare system provides an allowance of cash assistance for parents with minor children. This program was formed by the Social Security Act of 1935 to support widows and it also had limited appeal.   By the 1960’s there was a large amount of divorces which caused divorced mothers to be converted into the major users of the AFDC program, at the same time providing assistance for a small amount of single mothers who were never married (London).   Yet again the over time the focal point of the program shifted the focus to its principal responsibilities towards single, un-wed mothers and their children. Typically there are two groups of unwed mothers who collect welfare payments, divorced mothers and mothers who never married. Beharov and Sullivan found in the early1990’s, that 2/3 of the children on Aid to Families with Dependent Children were as a result of relationships that were never married,   whereas only 30 percent had separated or divorced parents. Ultimately this program has become one that recognizes the need to provide for the needs of widows and their children, but is now become a service that provides for parents who were never married financial support. There is a small number of statistics that truthfully reveal...