Oppression Of Single Mothers

However, the way the government has provided limited amount of help has been represented by a negative effect of mistrust to single mothers who depend on the welfare system. Pushing the mentality that individuals should work more, but still implementing fear that if they work pass a certain amount of time welfare would have been relinquished. Welfare would introduce a new act called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). TANF would be the work regulator that kept single mothers on following the working regiment on not doing to much money (Lee 2009). Jason DeParle’s article provides the case of a single mother who lost her childcare due to earning 50 cents more in her paycheck. Due to 50 cents her childcare was revoked and a domino
There has been issues of single mothers who lack enough self esteem to keep going to obtain an education. Their self-esteem drops when they go into the welfare offices because they feel like they now have to depend on someone else. Nobody ever thinks they would be put into the position were welfare is necessary, Goodman and Deparle’s articles both describe stories of the hardships of single mothers in welfare. However, there is also the lack of education in the articles. Deparle (2012) gives the example of two cases. The first case is a single mother who was trying her best to get out of welfare, but was still under the verge of poverty. Nationwide, one in four low income single mothers are considered to be jobless and do not have any cash assistance (Deparle 2012). Tamika Shelby is the second case. Tamika was on welfare and to keep her welfare help she had decided to take on a low wage job that only paid $2 the hour. Tamika Shelby was a single mother who was affected by the Arizona budget cut, her case was one to be tightened by her eligibility and during that time she lost her small job. Single mothers explained different stories of why they had to resort to welfare assistance but what most single mothers have in common is also the lack of an
The caseload would be taken care of and there is a chance of providing more adequate help for single mothers. The money the government invests in the programs is just getting suck out by the debt the program itself has created. Due to the large need the government has created on household dependency on single mothers, the money is not sufficient. Instead of focusing on the current problem it should focus on the future solution which has been education. If adding more help to the childcare is what is necessary, then more programs should be invested on that. Why is there such a need to keep society dependent on the