Sign Of The Times?

Since I am retired, I have a lot of time to observe things. Most of my observation is of people as they are the most diverse beings on planet Earth.
Perhaps it has always been, this way, but I don't recall it. Maybe I was just too busy living my life, working and raising a child. I don't know. I seems that now women don't really care to raise children at all. They still give birth to them but they shuffle them off to anyone that will take them. I see plenty of single dads now. That never used to happen. It's almost as if some of those men are taking over mothering. Don't get me wrong, it's nice to see men involved with their children. It's just not nice to see women turning into slackers. I can't help but wonder how these children will turn out. Maybe no different than the ones raised by just women.
Unfortunately what I observe is definitely limited in it's scope as I am surround by welfare folkin. That is to say, low income welfare recipients. It's section 8 housing.
It's the best deal around if a person doesn't want to work for a living.......all they need to do is qualify for the housing. Once they are accepted, they can even loose their welfare without loosing their apartment. Rent is based on 30 percent of the adjusted income. If the income is zero, so is the rent. Utilities will even be taken care of by the Feds so I am told.
How is that for taking all reasons for ambition away? I suspect that the original thought behind this housing was a good one but that it went the way of most good ideas and became something to abuse.
I wonder how much federal dollars are wasted on people that can work for a living but don't want to. Why should every ones tax dollars pay for programs that are so twisted out of shape that they make a bad situation worse?
It is painfully obvious that the welfare system in the state that I live in is in horrific need of reform. There are people that need help that can't get it and people that shouldn't get help sucking off the system.
I had thought that for awhile the welfare in this state had become workfare. Women or men asking for help needed to work a part time job if it were at all possible. As near as I can tell that isn't happening.
I am certainly in favor of people getting assistance with medical care and financial matters if they have exhausted their own means. Somehow someone sitting on their backside and chain smoking with their party pals doesn't fit that bill. I think it needs to be based on more than how many children you can produce in a lifetime.
Maybe these women could move to Canada. I think they still pay for the number of children you have. It used to be that way. I guess the government sent out monthly checks based on the number of children you had. Some of the Canadian families had 10 or 15 children. That was a long time ago and hopefully that changed. Somehow being paid to have children seems just wrong. It puts it on the level of animal husbandry.
I think this posting has taken me all the places it needs to for the day. I have seen enough signs of the times.