The welfare state didn’t just redistribute wealth, it redistributed the family structure itself.
When government becomes the provider of last resort, it eliminates the economic consequence of paternal abandonment. No fault. No guilt. No necessity.
Moynihan warned about this in 1965. He was called a racist for it. Sixty years later the data vindicated him completely and the people who silenced him still haven’t apologized.
You didn’t liberate the family by making fathers optional. You just made the state the father. And the state is a terrible father.
It doesn’t coach little league. It doesn’t model manhood. It sends a check and a caseworker.
The cruelest irony of progressive welfare policy is that it was sold as compassion and its legacy is fatherlessness at industrial scale.
When government becomes the provider of last resort, it eliminates the economic consequence of paternal abandonment. No fault. No guilt. No necessity.
Moynihan warned about this in 1965. He was called a racist for it. Sixty years later the data vindicated him completely and the people who silenced him still haven’t apologized.
You didn’t liberate the family by making fathers optional. You just made the state the father. And the state is a terrible father.
It doesn’t coach little league. It doesn’t model manhood. It sends a check and a caseworker.
The cruelest irony of progressive welfare policy is that it was sold as compassion and its legacy is fatherlessness at industrial scale.
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