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Originally posted by wonderwench
How about the social engineering experiments of welfare which discouraged young mothers from marrying the fathers of their children, thus destroying family formation and condemning generations to a virtual apartheid of low expectations and opportunity?
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Certainly the welfare system had some egregious unexpected consequences, but you can hardly lay ALL of the blame for social disintegration on it. I seem to remember reading poverty and low expectations well before the "great Society."