Family cap
The family cap is the practice of denying mothers or families who live on social welfare further financial aid for the birth of another child.
This is mainly practiced in some states of the USA and in Asian countries such as South Korea and Singapore .
Statistical data
| Ethnic Child Poverty Rate in the United States | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| year | All in all | African American | Hispanics |
| 1996 | 20.5% | 39.9% | 40.3% |
| 2001 | 16.3% | 30.2% | 28.0% |
| http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa/data-reports/annualreport5/chap09.htm | |||
28,000 children in New Jersey were withheld from welfare because of the Family Cap. When the Family Cap was introduced in the USA, a decline in child poverty was quickly measured. In March 1996, 30.2 out of 1,000 social assistance women in New Jersey had an abortion, compared with only 4.0 out of 1,000 women in the same period. That increased the abortion rate among welfare recipients in New Jersey by 14%.
criticism
Critics attribute a decline in child poverty to the increased number of abortions . It has been criticized that although poor women are more likely than rich women to reject abortions for moral reasons, they are often forced to have an abortion because of the family cap. Because of this, the Family Cap has been criticized by the New Jersey Catholic Conference, pro-life organizations, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the National Organization for Women. Politicians were accused of waging a "war against the poor". Also were eugenic motives assumed. Proponents, on the other hand, suggested that the Family Cap would encourage poor people to take responsibility.
Individual evidence
- ^ Welfare Reform - Family Cap ( English ) State of Connecticut - www.ct.gov. October 28, 2005. Retrieved May 13, 2010.
- ↑ Births Fall and Abortions Rise Under New Jersey Family Cap
- ^ Family Caps, Abortion and Women of Color ( English ) Oxford University Press - www.oxfordscholarship.com. 2009. Retrieved May 13, 2010.
- ↑ New Jersey "family cap" increases abortion rate ( memento of July 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ^ Critics call family cap a war against the poor
- ^ William G. Staples: Encyclopedia of Privacy A-M . Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007, ISBN 978-0-313-33477-1 , p. 375. ( Excerpt from Google book search)
- ↑ Anna Marie Smith: Welfare Reform and Sexual Regulation . Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-82095-0 , p. 80. ( Excerpt in Google book search)
- ↑ Family Cap Urged on Welfare Reform ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
