"Tiger Lilly" > wrote in message
...
> Yes, educated women do have fewer children...but FIRST ya gotta educate
> them to NOT have their first child at 15 or 16.
>
> In the "welfare ccycle", one girl has her first baby at 15, is a
> grandmother by 33 and a great grandmother by 50. People repeat wwhat
> they experience as "reality". A child who knows her great grandmother
> is a welfare recip, whose mom is a recip also, pretty much sees having
> kids young and getting on the wellfare roll as the norm---it's what
> people do. Three generations of highschool dropouts having babies
> doesnt tend to establish the concept of staying UNpregnant, finishing
> school and going ON to college in the wellfare child.
>
> Something needs to happen to break this cycle.
>
> TigerLilly
>

Nobody gets to stay on the "welfare rolls" longer than 5 years. Welfare
Reform Act of 1996.

Ms P